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 a 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 creeping locust consumes a crop. Multiply yourself like the creeping locust, Multiply yourself like the migratory locust.16You have made your 10traders more numerous than the stars of heaven-- The creeping locust sheds its skin and flies away.17Your 11courtiers are like the migratory locust. Your 12officials are like a swarm of locusts Settling in the stone shelters on a cold day. The sun rises and they flee, And the place where they are is not known.18Your shepherds are 13sleeping, O 14king of Assyria; Your 15officers are lying down. Your people are 16scattered on the mountains And there is no one to gather them.19There is 17no relief for your collapse, Your 18wound is incurable. All who hear 19about you Will 20clap their hands over you, For upon whom has your evil not come continually?