Verse Comparison: Nahum 3:16
American Standard Version
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.
Amplified® Bible
You increased your merchants more than the [visible] stars of the heavens. The swarming locust spreads itself {and} destroys, and then flies away.
Contemporary English Version
More merchants are in your city than there are stars in the sky-- but they are like locusts that eat everything, then fly away.
Darby English Version
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away.
Good News Bible
You produced more merchants than there are stars in the sky! But now they are gone, like locusts that spread their wings and fly away.
King James Version
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
New American Standard Bible
You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven-- The creeping locust strips and flies away.
New International Version
You have increased the number of your merchants
till they are more than the stars of the sky,
but like locusts they strip the land
and then fly away.
New King James Version
You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven.
The locust plunders and flies away.
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven-- The creeping locust strips and flies away.
Revised Standard Version
You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust spreads its wings and flies away.
Young's Literal Translation
Multiply thy merchants above the stars of the heavens, The cankerworm hath stripped off, and doth flee away.
