Nahum 3:15-17

International Children’s Bible

¹⁵ There the fire will burn you up.
    The sword will kill you.
    Like grasshoppers eating crops, the battle will completely destroy you.
Grow in number like hopping locusts.
    Grow in number like swarming locusts!
¹⁶ Your traders are more than the stars in the sky.
    But like locusts, they strip the land and then fly away.
¹⁷ Your guards are like locusts.
    Your officers are like swarms of locusts
    that settle in the walls on a cold day.
But when the sun comes up they fly away.
    And no one knows where they have gone.