Nahum 3:15-17

New Catholic Bible

¹⁵ Then the fire will consume you
    and the sword will cut you off.
Multiply yourselves like the locusts,
    make yourselves as numerous as the grasshoppers.

¹⁶ You have increased the number of your merchants
    until they now outnumber the stars of the heavens,
but like the locusts, they strip the land
    and then fly away.
¹⁷ Your guards are like locusts,
    and your scribes are like swarms of grasshoppers
that settle in the walls
    on a cold day.
However, when the sun rises, they fly away,
    and no one knows where they have gone.