11. You too will act like drunkards;you will go into hiding;you too will seek refuge from the enemy.
12. All your fortifications will be like fig trees with first-ripe fruit:If they are shaken, their figs will fall into the mouth of the eater!
13. Your warriors will be like women in your midst;the gates of your land will be wide open to your enemies;fire will consume the bars of your gates.
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!
19. Your destruction is like an incurable wound;your demise is like a fatal injury!All who hear what has happened to you will clap their hands for joy,for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty!