Nahum 3:15-17

New Century Version

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 hang on the walls on a cold day.
When the sun comes up, they fly away,
    and no one knows where they have gone.