¹⁵ There the fire will consume you. There the sword will cut you down. It will devour you as a swarm of grasshoppers would, even if you heap up your numbers like swarms of grasshoppers and locusts. ¹⁶ You have increased your merchants so that they are more than the stars of heaven! But they are like grasshoppers, which spread out and fly away. ¹⁷ Your courtiers are like locusts. Your field marshals are like swarming locusts! They camp in the walls on a cold day. Yet when the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where they are.