Nahum 3:15-17

Modern English Version

¹⁵ There the fire will devour you,
    the sword will cut you off;
    it will eat you up like the locust.
Multiply yourselves—like the locust!
    Multiply—like the grasshopper!
¹⁶ You have multiplied your merchants
    more than the stars of heaven.
The locust plunders
    and flies away.
¹⁷ Your leaders are like grasshoppers,
    your commanders like swarms of locusts,
    which camp in the hedges on a cold day;
when the sun rises they fly away,
    and the place where they are is not known.