Nahum 3:14-16

New International Version - UK

¹⁴ Draw water for the siege,
    strengthen your defences!
Work the clay,
    tread the mortar,
    repair the brickwork!
¹⁵ There the fire will consume you;
    the sword will cut you down –
    and it will devour you like a swarm of locusts.
Multiply like grasshoppers,
    multiply like locusts!
¹⁶ You have increased the number of your merchants
    till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky,
but like locusts they strip the land
    and then fly away.