Translations
Your guards are like locusts, your officials like swarms of grasshoppers — they huddle in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun rises they fly away, and no one knows where they have gone.
Your sentinels are like locusts; your officers like swarms of grasshoppers — camping in the stone-walls on a cold day, then the sun rises, they take wing and vanish; nobody knows where they have gone.
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.
Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.
