Isaiah 33:4

Modern

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

Traditional

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.

Literal

Your plunder will be gathered as gathers the locust; as the rushing of locusts shall he run upon it.

Latin

Et congregabuntur spolia vestra sicut colligitur bruchus, velut cum fossæ plenæ fuerint de eo.

Hebrew

English

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

Theme notes and profiles

2 Chronicles 14:13
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
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 there was so much.
Isaiah 33:23
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.
Joel 2:9
They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.
Joel 2:25
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.
2 Kings 7:15–16
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.