Isaiah 33:4 “Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locu…”

Isaiah 33:4

Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

World English Bible

Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

American Standard Version

And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth: as locusts leap shall men leap upon it.

Geneva Bible 1599

And your spoyle shall be gathered like the gathering of caterpillers: and he shall go against him like the leaping of grashoppers.

Darby Translation

And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running of locusts shall they run upon it.

Young's Literal Translation

And gathered hath been your spoil, A gathering of the caterpillar, As a running to and fro of locusts is he running on it.

Bible in Basic English

And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.

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Cross references

“your spoil”

Isaiah 33:23 2 Chronicles 14:13 2 Chronicles 20:25 2 Kings 7:15 2 Kings 7:16

Isaiah 33:23 · BSB

Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.

2 Chronicles 14:13 · BSB

Then Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell and could not recover, for they were crushed before the LORD and His army. So the people of Judah carried off a great amount of plunder

2 Chronicles 20:25 · BSB

Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to carry off the plunder, and they found on the bodies an abundance of goods and valuables —more than they could carry away. They were gathering the plunder for three days because the…

2 Kings 7:15 · BSB

And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in haste. So the scouts returned and told the king.

2 Kings 7:16 · BSB

Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. It was then that a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.

“the running”

Joel 2:9 Joel 2:25

Joel 2:9 · BSB

They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.

Joel 2:25 · BSB

I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust — My great army that I sent against you.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise.

5The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

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