17 Your courtiers are like locusts, your officials are like a swarm of locusts! They encamp in the walls on a cold day, yet when the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where they are.
17 Thy chosen men are as the locusts, and thy captains as swarms of grasshoppersD6424, which camp in the hedges in the cold day: when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
grasshoppers - Heb. gob gobai, lit. 'grasshopper of grasshoppers,' – probably a species of locust which issues from the ground when hatched; not as Ex. 10.13.
17 Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are].
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