Nahum 3:12-19

12All your fortifications are 1fig trees with 23ripe fruit-- When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.13Behold, your people are 4women in your midst! The gates of your land are 5opened wide to your enemies; Fire consumes your gate bars.146Draw for yourself water for the siege! 7Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!15There 8fire will consume you, The sword will cut you down; It will 9consume you as the locust does. Multiply yourself like the creeping locust, Multiply yourself like the swarming locust.16You have increased your 10traders more than the stars of heaven-- The creeping locust 11strips and flies away.17Your 1213guardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your 14marshals 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.18Your shepherds are 15sleeping, O 16king of Assyria; Your 17nobles are lying down. Your people are 18scattered on the mountains And there is no one to regather them.19There is 19no relief for your breakdown, Your 20wound is incurable. All who hear 21about you Will 22clap their hands over you, For on whom has not your evil passed continually?