Nahum 3:16
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.In other versions
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.
ASV
Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:
BBE
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away.
DBY
You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
WEB
Multiply thy merchants above the stars of the heavens, The cankerworm hath stripped off, and doth flee away.
YLT
You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoils, and flees away.
ENG
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm spoileth, and flieth away.
WBT
You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.
BSB
In context
14Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
15There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
17Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
18Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.