16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
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16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.
16 Multiply thy merchants above the stars of the heavens, The cankerworm hath stripped off, and doth flee away.
16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away.
16 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
16 Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
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Commentary on Nahum 3 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 3
This chapter goes on with the burden of Nineveh, and concludes it.
Nah 3:1-7
Here is,
Nah 3:8-19
Nineveh has been told that God is against her, and then none can be for her, to stand her in any stead; yet she sets God himself at defiance, and his power and justice, and says, I shall have peace. Threatened folks live long; therefore here the prophet largely shows how vain her confidences would prove and insufficient to ward off the judgment of God. To convince them of this,