Nahum 3:15-17

English Standard Version Anglicised

¹⁵ There will the fire devour you;
    the sword will cut you off.
    It will ^(A)devour you ^(B)like the locust.
Multiply yourselves ^(C)like the locust;
    multiply ^(D)like the grasshopper!
¹⁶ You increased ^(E)your merchants
    more than the stars of the heavens.
    ^(F)The locust spreads its wings and flies away.
¹⁷ Your ^(G)princes are ^(H)like grasshoppers,
    ^(I)your scribes^[a] like clouds of locusts
settling on the fences
    in a day of cold—
when the sun rises, they fly away;
    no one knows where they are.