Strong's Lexicon Your guardsmen מִנְּזָרַ֙יִךְ֙ (min·nə·zā·ra·yiḵ) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 4502: 1) princes, anointed ones, consecrated ones 1a) meaning dubious are like the swarming locust, כָּֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה (kā·’ar·beh) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 697: 1) a kind of locust, locust swarm (coll) 2) (CLBL) 2a) sudden disappearance (fig.) 2b) insignificance (fig.) 2c) activity (fig.) and your scribes וְטַפְסְרַ֖יִךְ (wə·ṭap̄·sə·ra·yiḵ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 2951: 1) scribe, official, marshal like clouds of locusts כְּג֣וֹב (kə·ḡō·wḇ) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 1462: 1) locusts גֹּבָ֑י (gō·ḇāy) Noun - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 1462: 1) locusts that settle הַֽחוֹנִ֤ים (ha·ḥō·w·nîm) Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 2583: 1) to decline, incline, encamp, bend down, lay siege against 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to decline 1a2) to encamp on the walls בַּגְּדֵרוֹת֙ (bag·gə·ḏê·rō·wṯ) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine plural Strong's Hebrew 1448: 1) wall, hedge 2) sheepfold (construct with 'sheep') on a cold קָרָ֔ה (qā·rāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 7135: 1) cold day. בְּי֣וֹם (bə·yō·wm) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 3117: 1) day, time, year 1a) day (as opposed to night) 1b) day (24 hour period) 1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1 1b2) as a division of time 1b2a) a working day, a day's journey 1c) days, lifetime (pl.) 1d) time, period (general) 1e) year 1f) temporal references 1f1) today 1f2) yesterday 1f3) tomorrow When the sun שֶׁ֤מֶשׁ (še·meš) Noun - common singular Strong's Hebrew 8121: 1) sun 1a) sun 1b) sunrise, sun-rising, east, sun-setting, west (of direction) 1c) sun (as object of illicit worship) 1d) openly, publicly (in other phrases) 1e) pinnacles, battlements, shields (as glittering or shining) rises, זָֽרְחָה֙ (zā·rə·ḥāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 2224: 1) to rise, come forth, break out, arise, rise up, shine 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to rise 1a2) to come out, appear they fly away, וְנוֹדַ֔ד (wə·nō·w·ḏaḏ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Pual - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 5074: 1) to retreat, flee, depart, move, wander abroad, stray, flutter 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to retreat, flee 1a2) to flee, depart 1a3) to wander, stray 1a4) to flutter (of birds) 1b) (Poal) to flee away, be chased 1c) (Hiphil) to chase away 1d) (Hophal) to be chased away 1e) (Hithpolel) to flee away and no וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's Hebrew 3808: 1) not, no 1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition) 1b) not (with modifier-negation) 1c) nothing (subst) 1d) without (with particle) 1e) before (of time) one knows נוֹדַ֥ע (nō·w·ḏa‘) Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3045: 1) to know 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to know 1a1a) to know, learn to know 1a1b) to perceive 1a1c) to perceive and see, find out and discern 1a1d) to discriminate, distinguish 1a1e) to know by experience 1a1f) to recognise, admit, acknowledge, confess 1a1g) to consider 1a2) to know, be acquainted with 1a3) to know (a person carnally) 1a4) to know how, be skilful in 1a5) to have knowledge, be wise 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be made known, be or become known, be revealed 1b2) to make oneself known 1b3) to be perceived 1b4) to be instructed 1c) (Piel) to cause to know 1d) (Poal) to cause to know 1e) (Pual) 1e1) to be known 1e2) known, one known, acquaintance (participle) 1f) (Hiphil) to make known, declare 1g) (Hophal) to be made known 1h) (Hithpael) to make oneself known, reveal oneself מְקוֹמ֖וֹ (mə·qō·w·mōw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 4725: 1) standing place, place 1a) standing place, station, post, office 1b) place, place of human abode 1c) city, land, region 1d) place, locality, spot 1e) space, room, distance 1f) region, quarter, direction 1g) give place to, instead of where. אַיָּֽם׃ (’ay·yām) Interrogative | third person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 335: 1) where?, whence? 2) which?, how? (in prefix with other adverb) Parallel Strong's Berean Study BibleYour guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where. Young's Literal Translation Thy crowned ones [are] as a locust, And thy princes as great grasshoppers, That encamp in hedges in a day of cold, The sun hath risen, and it doth flee away, And not known is its place where they are. Holman Christian Standard Bible Your court officials are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts , which settle on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they take off, and no one knows where they are. New American Standard Bible Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers Settling in the stone walls on a cold day. The sun rises and they flee, And the place where they are is not known. King James Bible 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]. Parallel Verses New International Version Your guards are like locusts, 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. New Living Translation Your guards and officials are also like swarming locusts that crowd together in the hedges on a cold day. But like locusts that fly away when the sun comes up, all of them will fly away and disappear. English Standard Version Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like clouds of locusts settling on the fences in a day of cold— when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they are. New American Standard Bible Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers Settling in the stone walls on a cold day. The sun rises and they flee, And the place where they are is not known. King James Bible 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. Holman Christian Standard Bible Your court officials are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they take off, and no one knows where they are. International Standard Version Your imperial guards are like the swarming grasshopper; your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers, settling in the stone walls on a chilly day. The sun rises, and they flee away; no one knows where they went. NET Bible 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. American Standard Version Thy princes are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. English Revised Version Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of 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. Young's Literal Translation Thy crowned ones are as a locust, And thy princes as great grasshoppers, That encamp in hedges in a day of cold, The sun hath risen, and it doth flee away, And not known is its place where they are. Cross References Revelation 9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. Jeremiah 51:27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers. Ezekiel 31:12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. Nahum 1:1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. Nahum 3:16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away. Nahum 3:15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts. Nahum 3:14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln. Nahum 3:18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them. Nahum 3:19 There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually? Habakkuk 1:1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. 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