Thy crowned; thy rich and wealthy citizens, or thy confederate kings and princes, or thy tributary princes; thy captains; hired, or homeborn, rather the former, commanders and officers; for number and briskness, are like locusts and great grasshoppers, but it is all for show, nothing for help to thee. Which camp, as if they would guard the grounds about which they settle. In the cold day; this lasts while the season suits them. But when the sun ariseth, when trouble, war, and danger, like the parching sun, scalds them, they flee away; they shift from the hedge they eat up. Their place is not known; thou shalt never know where to find them when thou needest, and they should help thee.
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Nahum 3:17
17 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.