Nahum 3:14-19 - Nineveh's Strength Will Not Save Her

¹⁴ Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls! ¹⁵ Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust! ¹⁶ Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away. ¹⁷ Your courtiers are like locusts, your officials are like a swarm of locusts! They encamp in the walls on a cold day, yet when the sun rises, they fly away; and no one knows where they are.

¹⁸ Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria! Your officers are slumbering! Your people are scattered like sheep on the mountains and there is no one to regather them! ¹⁹ Your destruction is like an incurable wound; your demise is like a fatal injury! All who hear what has happened to you will clap their hands for joy, for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty!