Nahum 3:13-15

The Voice

¹³Look at your fierce troops surrounding you now.
They cower like untrained women, not battle-hardened warriors.
The gates that should have protected your land
instead are standing wide open.
Fire burns through the bars; your enemies stroll right in.

¹⁴Draw up plenty of water to put out the fires,
    and prepare, for your enemy will begin a siege.
Get busy working the clay and mud to make extra bricks;
    you’ll need them to repair holes punched in your walls.
¹⁵The attackers’ fire will consume you.
    Their swords will cut you down,
And like grasshoppers attacking a field of grain,
    they will totally consume you.
Like grasshoppers, multiply yourselves;
    like locusts, make your numbers countless.