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12 All your defenses will be like fig trees with the earliest figs.
    When shaken, the figs fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Look at your soldiers; they’re women!
    The gates of your country are wide open to your enemies.
    Fire has destroyed the bars of your gates.

Nineveh’s Strength Will Not Save Her

14 Store water for the siege!
    Strengthen your defenses!
        Step into the claypits and trample the clay!
            Grab the brick mold!

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