Nahum 3:14-19 - Nineveh's Strength Will Not Save Her
14 Draw water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go to the mud [pit]! Trample the clay! Grasp the brick mold! 15 There fire will consume you; the sword will cut you off. It will consume you like the locust. 16 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of heaven; [like] the locust they will shed [their skin] and fly away. 17 Your officials [are] like locusts; your commanders [are] like a swarm of locusts. They encamp on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they fly away-- no one knows where they have gone.
18 Your shepherds are sleeping, king of Assyria! Your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains; no one can gather them. 19 There is no healing for your wound; your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you will clap [their] hands [for joy] concerning you, {For who has not suffered at the hands of your endless cruelty}?