Nahum 3:14-17

141Draw for yourself water for a siege! 2Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!15There 3fire will consume you, The sword will cut you down; It will 4consume you as the creeping locust consumes a crop. Multiply yourself like the creeping locust, Multiply yourself like the migratory locust.16You have made your 5traders more numerous than the stars of heaven-- The creeping locust sheds its skin and flies away.17Your 6courtiers are like the migratory locust. Your 7officials 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.