Nahum 3:16-18

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁶You increased your merchants
    more than the stars of the heavens.
    The locust spreads its wings and flies away.
¹⁷Your princes are like grasshoppers,
    your scribes^[a] like clouds of locusts
settling on the fences
    in a day of cold—
when the sun rises, they fly away;
    no one knows where they are.

¹⁸Your shepherds are asleep,
    O king of Assyria;
    your nobles slumber.
Your people are scattered on the mountains
    with none to gather them.

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Nahum 3:17 Or marshals

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