Nahum 3:13-15

International Standard Version

¹³ Look at your people—^[a]
    they are women!
Your borders stand wide open to your enemies,
    while fire consumes the bars of your gates.”

¹⁴ “Draw water, because a siege is coming!^[b]
    Strengthen your fortresses!
Make the clay good and strong!
    Mix the mortar!
        Go get your brick molds!^[c]
15 In that place fire will consume you,
    the sword will cut you down,
        consuming you as locusts do.
Multiply yourself like locusts,
    increase like swarming grasshoppers.