Nahum 3:15-17

Contemporary English Version

¹⁶ More merchants are in your city
than there are stars
    in the sky—
but they are like locusts
that eat everything,
    then fly away.
¹⁷ Your guards and your officials
    are swarms of locusts.
On a chilly day
    they settle on a fence,
but when the sun comes out,
they take off
    to who-knows-where.