Nahum 3:11-19

New American Standard Bible

¹¹You too will become ^(A)drunk,
You will be ^(B)hidden.
You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.
¹²All your fortifications are ^(C)fig trees with ^[a]^(D)ripe fruit—
When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.
¹³Behold, your people are ^(E)women in your midst!
The gates of your land are ^(F)opened wide to your enemies;
Fire consumes your gate bars.
¹⁴^(G)Draw for yourself water for a siege!
^(H)Strengthen your fortifications!
Go into the clay and tread the mortar!
Take hold of the brick mold!
¹⁵There ^(I)fire will consume you,
The sword will cut you down;
It will ^(J)consume you as the creeping locust consumes a crop.
Multiply yourself like the creeping locust,
Multiply yourself like the migratory locust.
¹⁶You have made your ^(K)traders more numerous than the stars of heaven—
The creeping locust sheds its skin and flies away.
¹⁷Your ^(L)courtiers are like the migratory locust.
Your ^(M)officials are like a swarm of locusts
Settling in the stone shelters on a cold day.
The sun rises and they flee,
And the place where they are is not known.
¹⁸Your shepherds are ^(N)sleeping, O ^(O)king of Assyria;
Your ^(P)officers are lying down.
Your people are ^(Q)scattered on the mountains
And there is no one to gather them.
¹⁹There is ^(R)no relief for your collapse,
Your ^(S)wound is incurable.
All who hear ^[b]about you
Will ^(T)clap their hands over you,
For upon whom has your evil not come continually?