Nahum 3:15-17

New International Reader's Version

¹⁵ In spite of all your hard work,
    fire will burn you up inside your city.
Your enemies will cut you down with their swords.
    They will destroy you
    just as a swarm of locusts eats up crops.
Multiply like grasshoppers!
    Increase your numbers like locusts!
¹⁶ You have more traders
    than the number of stars in the sky.
But like locusts they strip the land.
    Then they fly away.
¹⁷ Your guards are like grasshoppers.
    Your officials are like swarms of locusts.
    They settle in the walls on a cold day.
But when the sun appears, they fly away.
    And no one knows where they go.