Nahum 3:16-18

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁶ You have made your merchants^(A)
more numerous than the stars of the sky.
The young locust strips^[a] the land
and flies away.
¹⁷ Your court officials are like the swarming locust,
and your scribes like clouds of locusts,
which settle on the walls on a cold day;
when the sun rises, they take off,
and no one knows where they are.