defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield!

The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long.

and his followers, Gabbai and Sallai – 928 in all.

The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw him making locusts just as the crops planted late were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest.)

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.