Nahum 3:14-16

International Standard Version

¹⁴ “Draw water, because a siege is coming!^[a]
    Strengthen your fortresses!
Make the clay good and strong!
    Mix the mortar!
        Go get your brick molds!^[b]
15 In that place fire will consume you,
    the sword will cut you down,
        consuming you as locusts do.
Multiply yourself like locusts,
    increase like swarming grasshoppers.
¹⁶ You added to your inventory of businessmen—
    they number more than the stars of heaven.
The creeping locust sheds its skin and flies away.