Verse 16

Nahum 3:16

World English Bible, British Edition

16 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away.

Original Language Text

hebrew

הִרְבֵּית֙ רֹֽכְלַ֔יִ/ךְ מִ/כּוֹכְבֵ֖י הַ/שָּׁמָ֑יִם יֶ֥לֶק פָּשַׁ֖ט וַ/יָּעֹֽף

English Translation

Your merchants are more than the stars of heaven; the green is stripped and it flies away.

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Chapter 3 Context

1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey. Focus ↗

2 The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots, Focus ↗

3 the horseman charging, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a... Focus ↗

4 because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft,... Focus ↗

5 “Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I... Focus ↗

6 I will throw abominable filth on you and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle. Focus ↗

7 It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! W... Focus ↗

8 Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated amongst the rivers, who had the waters around her, who... Focus ↗

9 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers. Focus ↗

10 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at... Focus ↗

11 You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy. Focus ↗

12 All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs. If they are shaken, they fall i... Focus ↗

13 Behold, your troops amongst you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies.... Focus ↗

14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make t... Focus ↗

15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper.... Focus ↗

16 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees...

17 Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the... Focus ↗

18 Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the moun... Focus ↗

19 There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their... Focus ↗

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