Nahum 3:16-18

New Century Version

¹⁶ Your traders are more than the stars in the sky,
    but like locusts, they strip the land and then fly away.
¹⁷ Your guards are like locusts.
    Your officers are like swarms of locusts
    that hang on the walls on a cold day.
When the sun comes up, they fly away,
    and no one knows where they have gone.
¹⁸ King of Assyria, your rulers are asleep;
    your important men lie down to rest.
Your people have been scattered on the mountains,
    and there is no one to bring them back.