And now, I will break Assyria's yoke bar from your neck; I will tear apart the shackles that are on you."

The charioteers will charge ahead; their swords will flash and their spears will glimmer! There will be many people slain; there will be piles of the dead, and countless casualties -- so many that people will stumble over the corpses.

You are no more secure than Thebes -- she was located on the banks of the Nile; the waters surrounded her, her rampart was the sea, the water was her wall.

Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.