Nahum 3:14-16

Expanded Bible

¹⁴ ·Get enough water before the long war begins [Draw water for the siege].
    Make your defenses strong!
Get mud,
    mix clay,
    ·make bricks [strengthen the brickwork]!
¹⁵ There the fire will ·burn you up [consume/devour you].
    The sword will ·kill you [cut you down];
    ·like grasshoppers eating crops, the battle will completely destroy you [it will devour you like locusts].
Grow in number like ·hopping [or young] locusts;
    grow in number like ·swarming [or flying] locusts!
¹⁶ Your ·traders [merchants] are more than the stars in the sky,
    but like locusts they ·strip the land [or shed their skin] and then fly away.