Nahum 3:16-18

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁶ You have increased your ^(A)traders more than the stars of heaven—
The creeping locust ^[a]strips and flies away.
¹⁷ Your ^[b](B)guardsmen are like the swarming locust.
Your ^(C)marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers
Settling in the stone walls 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)nobles are lying down.
Your people are ^(G)scattered on the mountains
And there is no one to regather them.