Nahum 3:14-19 - Nineveh's Strength Will Not Save Her
14 Draw (pump) water for the siege! Strengthen your defenses! Step into the clay pits and trample the clay! Grab hold of the brick mold! 15 You will be burned to death or killed in battle. You will be devoured like crops eaten by locusts. You grew in number like locusts! 16 You multiplied your merchants like the stars in the sky! But now they are gone, like locusts that spread their wings and fly away. 17 Your princes are as the locusts, and your officers as the swarms of grasshoppers. They encamp in the hedges on a cold day, but when the sun shines they flee away and no one knows where they go.
18 Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; your nobles are at rest. Your people are scattered upon the mountains, and there is none to gather them. 19 There is no relief for your pain. Your wound is grievous! All who hear the report about you applaud for your wickedness affected everyone.