Study Desk

There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and, like grasshoppers, consume you. Multiply like grasshoppers, multiply like locusts!

You have increased the number of your merchants till they are more than the stars of the sky, but like locusts they strip the land and then fly away.

Your guards are like locusts, your officials like swarms of locusts that settle in the walls on a cold day- but when the sun appears they fly away, and no one knows where.