Nahum 3:16-18

New American Standard Bible

¹⁶ You have made your ^(A)traders more numerous than the stars of heaven—
The creeping locust sheds its skin and flies away.
¹⁷ Your ^(B)courtiers are like the migratory locust.
Your ^(C)officials are like a swarm of locusts
Settling in the stone shelters on a cold day.
The sun rises and they flee,
And the place where they are is not known.
¹⁸ Your shepherds are ^(D)sleeping, O ^(E)king of Assyria;
Your ^(F)officers are lying down.
Your people are ^(G)scattered on the mountains
And there is no one to gather them.