Isaiah 33:4
New International Version
Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts; like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.

New Living Translation
Just as caterpillars and locusts strip the fields and vines, so the fallen army of Assyria will be stripped!

English Standard Version
and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, it is leapt upon.

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

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
And Your plunder shall be gathered Like the gathering of the caterpillar; As the running to and fro of locusts, He shall run upon them.

New American Standard Bible
Your plunder is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; Like an infestation of locusts, people storm it.

NASB 1995
Your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; As locusts rushing about men rush about on it.

NASB 1977
And your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; As locusts rushing about, men rush about on it.

Legacy Standard Bible
Your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; As locusts rushing about men rush about on it.

Amplified Bible
Your spoil [of Israel’s foe] is gathered [by the people of Jerusalem] as the caterpillar gathers; As locusts swarming so people swarm on it.

Christian Standard Bible
Your spoil will be gathered as locusts are gathered; people will swarm over it like an infestation of locusts.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your spoil will be gathered as locusts are gathered; people will swarm over it like an infestation of locusts.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Therefore your loot shall be gathered as the gathering of crawling locusts, and like a gathering of locusts that are assembled

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And now shall the spoils of your small and great be gathered: as if one should gather locusts, so shall they mock you.

Contemporary English Version
We attack our enemies like swarms of locusts; we take everything that belongs to them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And your spoils shall be gathered together as the locusts are gathered, as when the ditches are full of them.

English Revised Version
And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpiller gathereth: as locusts leap shall they leap upon it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You nations, your loot is gathered as grasshoppers harvest a crop. Like swarming locusts, people rush for your loot.

Good News Translation
Their belongings are pounced upon and taken as loot.

International Standard Version
Your plunder is gathered as when grasshoppers gather; just like locusts pounce, people have pounced on it.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathereth; As locusts leap do they leap upon it.

Literal Standard Version
And Your spoil has been gathered, | A gathering of the caterpillar, | As a running to and fro of locusts | He is running on it.

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

New American Bible
Spoil is gathered up as caterpillars gather, an onrush like the rush of locusts.

NET Bible
Your plunder disappears as if locusts were eating it; they swarm over it like locusts!

New Revised Standard Version
Spoil was gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, they leaped upon it.

New Heart English Bible
Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

Webster's Bible Translation
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: 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.

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.

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Context
The LORD is Exalted
3The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise. 4Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it. 5The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.…

Cross References
Isaiah 33:3
The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise.

Isaiah 33:5
The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

Ezekiel 25:7
therefore I will indeed stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.'

Joel 1:4
What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.


Treasury of Scripture

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

your spoil

Isaiah 33:23
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.

2 Kings 7:15,16
And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king…

2 Chronicles 14:13
And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.

the running

Joel 2:9,25
They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief…

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1. God's judgments against the enemies of the church
13. The consternation of sinners, and privileges of the godly














(4) Your spoil . . .--The words are addressed to the invader. He who came to spoil should find himself spoiled. As caterpillars and locusts devour the green herbage, so should he (or they, the indefinite pronoun standing for the people of Jerusalem) strip his camp of all its treasures.

Verse 4. - Your spoil shall be gathered. The "spoiling" of Assyria would commence with the discomfiture of the great host. In the historical narrative (2 Kings 19:35; Isaiah 37:36) nothing is said of it; but, beyond a doubt, when the host was to a largo extent destroyed, and the remainder fled, there must have been an enormous booty left behind, which the enemies of the Assyrians would naturally seize. A further spoiling of the fugitives probably followed; and, the prestige of the great king being gone, marauding bands would probably on all sides ravage the Assyrian territory. Like the gathering of the caterpillar. The "caterpillar" (khasil) is probably the grub out of which the locust develops - a very destructive insect. Shall he run. It would be better to render, shall they run. The word, indeed, is in the singular; but it is used distributively, of the various spoilers.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Your spoil
שְׁלַלְכֶ֔ם (šə·lal·ḵem)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 7998: A prey, spoil, plunder, booty

will be gathered
וְאֻסַּ֣ף (wə·’us·sap̄)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Pual - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 622: To gather for, any purpose, to receive, take away, remove

as if by locusts;
הֶֽחָסִ֑יל (he·ḥā·sîl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2625: The ravager, a locust

like a swarm
כְּמַשַּׁ֥ק (kə·maš·šaq)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4944: A traversing, rapid motion

of locusts
גֵּבִ֖ים (gê·ḇîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1357: A locust

men will pounce
שׁוֹקֵ֥ק (šō·w·qêq)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 8264: To course, to seek greedily

on it.
בּֽוֹ׃ (bōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew


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