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13 Your army is weak.
Fire has destroyed the crossbars
    on your city gates;
now they stand wide open
    to your enemy.

14 Your city is under attack.
Haul in extra water!
    Strengthen your defenses!
Start making bricks!
    Stir the mortar!
15 You will still go up in flames
    and be cut down by swords
that will wipe you out like a field
    attacked by grasshoppers.
So, go ahead and increase
    like a swarm of locusts![a]

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Footnotes

  1. 3.15 locusts: A type of grasshopper that comes in swarms and causes great damage to plant life.

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