Nah 3:12-19 | ESV | STEP | All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs — if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater .

12 All your fortresses are ^alike fig trees
with first-ripe figs—
if shaken they fall
into the mouth of the eater.
13 Behold, your troops
^bare women in your midst.
The gates of your land
are wide open to your enemies;
fire has devoured your bars.
14 ^cDraw water for the siege;
^dstrengthen your forts;
go into the clay;
tread the mortar;
take hold of the brick mold!
15 There will the fire devour you;
the sword will cut you off.
It will ^edevour you ^flike the locust.
Multiply yourselves ^glike the locust;
multiply ^hlike the grasshopper!
16 You increased ⁱyour merchants
more than the stars of the heavens.
^jThe locust spreads its wings and flies away.
17 Your ^kprinces are ^llike grasshoppers,
^myour scribes ^{▼▼Or marshals} 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.
18 Your shepherds ^oare asleep,
O king of Assyria;
^pyour nobles slumber.
Your people ^qare scattered on the mountains
with none to gather them.
19 There is no easing your hurt;
^ryour wound is grievous.
All who hear the news about you
^sclap their hands over you.
For ^tupon whom has not come
your unceasing evil?