Nahum 3:14-19 - Nineveh's Strength Will Not Save Her
14 Draw water now against thou be besieged, make up thy strongholds, go into the clay, temper the mortar, make strong brick: 15 yet the fire shall consume thee, the sword shall destroy thee. Yea, as the locust doth, so shall it eat thee up. It shall fall heavily upon thee as the locusts, yea right heavily shall it fall upon thee, even as the grasshoppers. 16 Thy merchants have been numbered with the stars of heaven: but now shall they spread abroad as the locusts, and flee their way. 17 Thy lords are as the grasshoppers, and thy captains as the multitude of grasshoppers: which when they be cold, remain in the hedges: but when the Sun is up, they flee away, and no man can tell where they are become.
18 Thy shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria, thy worthies are laid down: thy people is scattered abroad upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them together again. 19 Thy wound cannot be hid, thy plague is so sore. All they that hear this of thee, shall clap their hands over thee. For what is he, to whom thou hast not always been doing hurt?