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

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17 Your guards are like locusts,(A)
    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.

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