"Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

Har du ej hørt det? For længst kom det op i min tanke, jeg lagde det fordum til rette, nu lod jeg det ske, og du gjorde murstærke byer til øde stenhobe, mens folkene grebes i afmagt af skræk og skam, blev som græsset på marken, det spirende grønne, som græs på tage, som mark for østenvinden.