14. Draw yourselves water for a siege!Strengthen your fortifications!Trample the mud and tread the clay!Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
15. There the fire will consume you;the sword will cut you down;it will devour you like the young locust would.Multiply yourself like the young locust;multiply yourself like the flying locust!
16. Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven!They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.
17. Your courtiers are like locusts,your officials are like a swarm of locusts!They encamp in the walls on a cold day,yet when the sun rises, they fly away; and no one knows where they are.
18. Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria!Your officers are slumbering!Your people are scattered like sheep on the mountainsand there is no one to regather them!