defiantly charging against him ¹  with a thick, strong shield! ² 

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

and his followers, ¹  Gabbai and Sallai – 928 in all.

The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw ¹  him making locusts just as the crops planted late ²  were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest. ³ )

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