Nahum 3:14-16

Contemporary English Version

¹⁴ Your city is under attack.
Haul in extra water!
    Strengthen your defenses!
Start making bricks!
    Stir the mortar!
¹⁵ You will still go up in flames
    and be cut down by swords
that will wipe you out like a field
    attacked by grasshoppers.
So, go ahead and increase
    like a swarm of locusts!^[a]

¹⁶ More merchants are in your city
than there are stars
    in the sky—
but they are like locusts
that eat everything,
    then fly away.