¹⁴ Get ready for the siege! Store up water! Strengthen the forts! Prepare many bricks for repairing your walls! Go into the pits to trample the clay, and pack it in the molds!

¹⁵ But in the middle of your preparations, the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down; the enemy will consume you like young locusts that eat up everything before them. There is no escape, though you multiply like grasshoppers. ¹⁶ Merchants, numerous as stars, filled your city with vast wealth, but your enemies swarm like locusts and carry it away.