Nahum 3:16-18

New International Reader's Version

¹⁶ You have more traders
    than the number of stars in the sky.
But like locusts they strip the land.
    Then they fly away.
¹⁷ Your guards are like grasshoppers.
    Your officials are like swarms of locusts.
    They settle in the walls on a cold day.
But when the sun appears, they fly away.
    And no one knows where they go.