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You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
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Wealth That Vanishes
Commentators explain that Nineveh's commercial empire was vast and glorious, with merchants as numerous "as the stars of heaven." However, the prophet compares this entire system to a locust swarm. It plundered the world for its riches, but just like locusts that suddenly fly away, Nineveh's wealth and power would vanish in an instant. This serves as a timeless warning that worldly prosperity, especially when ill-gotten, offers no lasting security.
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Nahum
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven - Not numerous only but glorious in the eyes of the world, and, as you…
19th Century
Anglican
Spoils. —Better, spreads itself out: swarms out to spoil.
Baptist
What marvelous poetry is this! How terrible! Their soldiers, their rulers, their captains, were as many as the locusts and the grasshoppers; but wh…
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16th Century
Protestant
From these words we may learn what the Prophet previously meant when he said that the Assyrians were like locusts or chafers; as if he said, "I kno…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven
A hyperbolical expression, setting forth the great nu…
Strongholds, even the strongest, are no defense against the judgments of God. They will be unable to do anything for themselves.
The Chaldea…
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