Nahum 3:16-18

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁶ You have increased your merchants so that they are more than the stars of heaven! But they are like grasshoppers, which spread out and fly away. ¹⁷ Your courtiers are like locusts. Your field marshals are like swarming locusts! They camp in the walls on a cold day. Yet when the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where they are.

¹⁸ King of Assyria, your shepherds are drowsy! Your powerful men slumber! Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there are none left to gather together.^[a]