aFortify your strongholds!
Go into the clay and tread the mortar!
Make strong the brick kiln!
The sword will cut you off;
It will eat you up like a alocust.
Make yourself many—like the locust!
Make yourself many— like the swarming locusts!
The locust plunders and flies away.
And your generals like great grasshoppers,
Which camp in the hedges on a cold day;
When the sun rises they flee away,
And the place where they are is not known.
Your nobles rest in the dust.
Your people are cscattered on the mountains,
And no one gathers them.
aYour wound is severe.
bAll who hear news of you
Will clap their hands over you,
For upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?
| << Nahum 3:15 | Nahum 3:17 >> |
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.
New English Translation
Increase1 your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like2 the young locust which sheds3 its skin and flies away.
| << Nahum 3:15 | Nahum 3:17 >> |
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