¹⁵ In that place fire will consume you,
    the sword will cut you down,
        consuming you as locusts do.
Multiply yourself like locusts,
    increase like swarming grasshoppers.
¹⁶ You added to your inventory of businessmen—
    they number more than the stars of heaven.
The creeping locust sheds its skin and flies away.
¹⁷ Your imperial guards are like the swarming grasshopper;
    your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers,
        settling in the stone walls on a chilly day.
The sun rises, and they flee away;
    no one knows where they went.