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14 Draw water for the siege;
    strengthen your forts;
trample the clay;
    tread the mortar;
    take hold of the brick mold!
15 There the fire will devour you;
    the sword will cut you off.
    It will devour you like the locust.

Multiply yourselves like the locust;
    multiply like the grasshopper!(A)
16 You increased your merchants
    more than the stars of the heavens.
    The locust sheds its skin and flies away.

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