“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 locusts, and your officials like clouds of grasshoppers; they settle on the walls in a day of cold, but when the sun rises, they flee, and no one knows where they have gone—the military leadership, like locusts, disappears when conditions shift unfavorably. The image of officials and commanders vanishing emphasizes the disintegration of authority and command structure. The instability of locusts stands in inverse proportion to Assyria's boasted permanence.
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