Nahum 3:13-15

New Catholic Bible

¹³ Look at your troops.
    You are a nation of women.
The gates of your country
    lie open to your enemies;
    fire has consumed the bars of your gates.
¹⁴ Draw yourselves water for the siege!
    Strengthen your fortifications!
Trample the clay,
    tread the mortar,
    repair the brickwork!
¹⁵ Then the fire will consume you
    and the sword will cut you off.
Multiply yourselves like the locusts,
    make yourselves as numerous as the grasshoppers.