¹⁵ There fire will consume you;
    the sword will cut you off.
        It will consume you like the locust.

Multiply yourself like the locust!
    Multiply yourself like the grasshopper!
¹⁶ You have increased your merchants more than the stars of heaven;
    like the locust they will shed their skin and fly away.
¹⁷ Your officials are like locusts;
    your commanders are like a swarm of locusts.
They encamp on the walls on a cold day;
    when the sun rises, they fly away—
        no one knows where they have gone.