I looked and saw that there were no more people, ¹  and that all the birds in the sky had flown away.

We escaped with our lives, ¹  like a bird from a hunter’s snare. The snare broke, and we escaped.

Your courtiers ¹  are like locusts, your officials ²  are like a swarm of locusts! They encamp in the walls on a cold day, yet when the sun rises, they ³  fly away; ⁴  and no one knows where they ⁵  are. ⁶