12 But all your fortresses are fig trees,bearing early figs;When shaken, they fallinto the devourer’s mouth.
13 Indeed your troopsare women in your midst;To your foes are open widethe gates of your land,fire has consumed their bars.
14 Draw water for the siege,strengthen your fortresses;Go down into the mudand tread the clay,take hold of the brick mold!
15 There the fire will consume you,the sword will cut you down;it will consume you like the grasshoppers.Multiply like the grasshoppers,multiply like the locusts!
16 You have made your traders more numerousthan the stars of the heavens;like grasshoppers that shed their skins and fly away.
17 Your sentries are like locusts,and your scribes like locust swarmsGathered on the rubble fenceson a cold day!Yet when the sun rises, they vanish,and no one knows where they have gone.
18 Your shepherds slumber,O king of Assyria,your nobles have gone to rest;Your people are scattered upon the mountains,with none to gather them.