Bible verse
You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.
Nahum 3:16 · BSB
The verses around it, from Nahum 3.
12 All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!
13 Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
14 Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!
15 There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!
16 You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.
17 Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.
18 O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.
19 There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news of you applaud your downfall, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?
KJV
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
ASV
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.
ERV
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
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