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For a nation[a] invaded my land,
    powerful and past counting,
With teeth like a lion’s,
    fangs like those of a lioness.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:6 A nation: the locusts are compared to an invading army, whose numbers are overwhelming. The ravaged landscape resembles the wasteland left behind by marauding troops; the order and peace associated with agricultural productivity (1 Kgs 5:5; Mi 4:4) has been destroyed.