Nahum 3:16-18

New Catholic Bible

¹⁶ You have increased the number of your merchants
    until they now outnumber the stars of the heavens,
but like the locusts, they strip the land
    and then fly away.
¹⁷ Your guards are like locusts,
    and your scribes are like swarms of grasshoppers
that settle in the walls
    on a cold day.
However, when the sun rises, they fly away,
    and no one knows where they have gone.

¹⁸ Alas, your shepherds are asleep,
    O king of Assyria;
    your neighbors lie down to rest.
Your people are scattered on the mountains
    with no one to gather them.