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Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
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Verse 17. Guards. Hebrew “crowned” princes.—Little. Hebrew “satraps are like great locusts, which,” and so forth S. Jerom has read ( Calmet.) toppic instead of taphseraic, ( Bible.) which Septuagint neglect. Thapsar denotes an officer. Jeremiah 51:27. Calmet.—Of locusts. The young locusts. Challoner. Verse 18. Slumbered. They have not guarded the flock. Calmet.
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