Nahum 3:14-16

New International Reader's Version

¹⁴ Prepare for the attack by storing up water!
    Make your walls as strong as you can!
Make some bricks out of clay!
    Mix the mud to hold them together!
    Use them to repair the walls!
¹⁵ In spite of all your hard work,
    fire will burn you up inside your city.
Your enemies will cut you down with their swords.
    They will destroy you
    just as a swarm of locusts eats up crops.
Multiply like grasshoppers!
    Increase your numbers like locusts!
¹⁶ You have more traders
    than the number of stars in the sky.
But like locusts they strip the land.
    Then they fly away.