Nahum 3:8-19

⁸ Are you better than No-amon e , Which was situated by the waters of the Nile , With water surrounding her, Whose rampart was the sea , Whose wall consisted of the sea ? ⁹ Ethiopia was her might , And Egypt too, without limits . Put and Lubim were among her helpers . ¹⁰ Yet she became an exile , She went into captivity ; Also her small children were dashed to pieces At the head of every street ; They cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound with fetters . ¹¹ You too will become drunk , You will be hidden . You too will search for a refuge from the enemy . ¹² All your fortifications are fig trees with ripe fruit - When shaken , they fall into the eater's mouth . ¹³ Behold , your people are women in your midst ! The gates of your land are opened wide to your enemies ; Fire consumes your gate bars . ¹⁴ Draw for yourself water for the siege ! Strengthen your fortifications ! Go into the clay and tread the mortar ! Take hold of the brick mold ! ¹⁵ There fire will consume you, The sword will cut you down ; It will consume you as the locust does. Multiply yourself like the creeping locust , Multiply yourself like the swarming locust . ¹⁶ You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven - The creeping locust strips and flies away . ¹⁷ Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust . Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers Settling in the stone walls on a cold day . The sun rises and they flee , And the place where they are is not known . ¹⁸ Your shepherds are sleeping , O king of Assyria ; Your nobles are lying down . Your people are scattered on the mountains And there is no one to regather them. ¹⁹ There is no relief for your breakdown , Your wound is incurable . All who hear about you Will clap their hands over you, For on whom has not your evil passed continually ?