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Nahum 3:16 KJV
Nahum · chapter 3 · verse 16
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.Nahum 3:16 · King James Version
Nahum 3:16 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- multipliedrâbâhto increaseH7235 →
- cankerwormyeleqa devourerH3218 →
- merchantsrâkalto travel for tradingH7402 →
- spoilethpâshaṭto spread outH6584 →
- heavenshâmayimthe sky (as aloftH8064 →
- starskôwkâba starH3556 →
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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;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-19