Nahum 3:14-16

The Voice

¹⁴ Draw up plenty of water to put out the fires,
    and prepare, for your enemy will begin a siege.
Get busy working the clay and mud to make extra bricks;
    you’ll need them to repair holes punched in your walls.
¹⁵ The attackers’ fire will consume you.
    Their swords will cut you down,
And like grasshoppers attacking a field of grain,
    they will totally consume you.
Like grasshoppers, multiply yourselves;
    like locusts, make your numbers countless.
¹⁶ You brought so many merchants
    till they are more numerous than the stars in the skies.
Like grasshoppers, they strip sustenance from the land,
    only to fly away before justice can be sought.