14. Draw water for yourself to prepare for siege!Strengthen your fortifications!Tread the clay, trample the mortar, grab the brick mold!
15. Fire will consume you there;the sword will cut you down;like the locust it will consume you.Multiply like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper!
16. You boasted more traders than the heavens have stars.The locust sheds its skin and flies away.
17. Your guards are like grasshoppers,your marshals like swarms of cicadasthat encamp on stone fences on a chilly day;when the sun rises, they take flight;no one knows where they have gone.
18. Your shepherds have fallen asleep, king of Assyria!Your officials are lying down.Your people are scattered across the mountains;there is no one to gather them.
19. There is no remedy for your injury;your wound is grievous.All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you.Who has not suffered from your continual cruelty?