Nahum 3:17-19

International Children’s Bible

¹⁷ Your guards are like locusts.
    Your officers are like swarms of locusts
    that settle in the walls on a cold day.
But when the sun comes up they fly away.
    And no one knows where they have gone.
¹⁸ King of Assyria, your rulers are asleep.
    Your important men lie down to rest.
Your people have been scattered on the mountains.
    And there is no one to bring them back.
¹⁹ Nothing can heal your wound.
    Your injury will not heal.
Everyone who hears about you applauds
    because everyone has felt your endless cruelty.