¹⁴ Draw water for the siege,^(A)
    strengthen your defenses!^(B)
Work the clay,
    tread the mortar,
    repair the brickwork!
¹⁵ There the fire^(C) will consume you;
    the sword^(D) will cut you down—
    they will devour you like a swarm of locusts.
Multiply like grasshoppers,
    multiply like locusts!^(E)
16 You have increased the number of your merchants
    till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky,
but like locusts^(F) they strip the land
    and then fly away.