Isaiah 33:4

The NET Bible®

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

Parallel Translations

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

Hebrew Names Version
Your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathers: as locusts leap shall men leap on it.

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.

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

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

New Century Version
Like locusts, your enemies will take away the things you stole in war. Like locusts rushing about, they will take your wealth.

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.

World English Bible
Your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathers: as locusts leap shall men leap on it.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And your spoyle shall be gathered like the gathering of caterpillers: and he shall go against him like the leaping of grashoppers.

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

Berean Standard Bible
Your spoil will be gathered as if by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men will pounce on it.

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

Complete Jewish Bible
Your spoil is gathered as if stripped by shearer-worms; they run over it like a swarm of locusts.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
You people stole things in war. Those things will be taken from you. Many will come and take your wealth. It will be like the times when locusts come and eat all your crops.

George Lamsa Translation
Henceforth your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar; as a swarm of locusts when it is gathered together.

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

Lexham English Bible
And your spoil is gathered, as the gathering of the locust, as a swarm of locusts storming on it.

Literal Translation
And Your prey shall be gathered as the stripping locust gathers; as locusts run to and fro, he also runs about on it.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and that their spoyle maye be gathered, as the greshoppers are comonly gathered together in to the pyt.

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

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathereth; as locusts leap do they leap upon it.

King James Version (1611)
And your spoile shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of Locusts shall he runne vpon them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the spoyles shalbe gathered, which shalbe yours, as are the gathetheryng of Bruchus, and the multitude goyng to it shalbe as Locustes, running to and fro.

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

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And youre spuylis schulen be gaderid togidere, as a bruke is gaderid togidere, as whanne dichis ben ful therof.

Update Bible Version
And your spoil shall be gathered [as] the caterpillar gathers: as locusts leap shall men leap on it.

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.

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

New Life Bible
The things taken in war will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men rush upon it like locusts.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shall your spoil be gathered as the gathering of the caterpillar, - As the swift running of locusts, is he about to run upon them.

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

Revised Standard Version
and spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, men leap 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.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; As locusts rushing about men rush about on it.

Contextual Overview

¹ The destroyer is as good as dead, you who have not been destroyed! The deceitful one is as good as dead, the one whom others have not deceived! When you are through destroying, you will be destroyed; when you finish deceiving, others will deceive you! ² Lord , be merciful to us! We wait for you. Give us strength each morning! Deliver us when distress comes. ³ The nations run away when they hear a loud noise; the nations scatter when you spring into action! ⁴ Your plunder disappears as if locusts were eating it; they swarm over it like locusts! ⁵ The Lord is exalted, indeed, he lives in heaven; he fills Zion with justice and fairness. ⁶ He is your constant source of stability; he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; he gives all this to those who fear him. ⁷ Look, ambassadors cry out in the streets; messengers sent to make peace weep bitterly. ⁸ Highways are empty, there are no travelers. Treaties are broken, witnesses are despised, human life is treated with disrespect. ⁹ The land dries up and withers away; the forest of Lebanon shrivels up and decays. Sharon is like the desert; Bashan and Carmel are parched. ¹⁰ "Now I will rise up," says the Lord . "Now I will exalt myself; now I will magnify myself.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

the running: Joel 2:9, Joel 2:25

Reciprocal: Psalms 78:46 - the caterpillar Jeremiah 50:10 - all that Joel 1:4 - the caterpillar Amos 7:1 - he Nahum 2:9 - ye Habakkuk 2:8 - thou Revelation 9:3 - locusts

Cross-References

Genesis 32:28
"No longer will your name be Jacob," the man told him, "but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed."

Genesis 43:30
Joseph hurried out, for he was overcome by affection for his brother and was at the point of tears. So he went to his room and wept there.

Genesis 43:34
He gave them portions of the food set before him, but the portion for Benjamin was five times greater than the portions for any of the others. They drank with Joseph until they all became drunk.

Genesis 45:2
He wept loudly; the Egyptians heard it and Pharaoh's household heard about it.

Genesis 46:29
Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him, he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.

Nehemiah 1:11
Please, O Lord, listen attentively to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who take pleasure in showing respect to your name. Grant your servant success today and show compassion to me in the presence of this man." Now I was cupbearer for the king.

Job 2:12
But when they gazed intently from a distance but did not recognize him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads.

Psalms 34:4
I sought the Lord 's help and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.

Proverbs 16:7
When a person's ways are pleasing to the Lord , he even reconciles his enemies to himself.

Proverbs 21:1
The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord like channels of water; he turns it wherever he wants.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the caterpillar,.... This is the answer of the Lord to the prayer of his church, signifying that their enemies should flee, be scattered, and perish, and that they should be victorious, and enjoy the spoils of them; which they should gather as easily as the caterpillar or locust, as some render it, gathers and consumes herbs, and every green thing; or as easily as they are gathered, and laid on heaps, being weak and unable to defend themselves: most understand it of the Jews going into the camp of the Assyrians, after the destruction of them by the angel, and gathering their spoil. The Targum is,

"and the house of Israel shall gather the substance of the people, their enemies, as they gather a locust:''

the antichristian locusts or caterpillars are here meant, whose substance shall fall into the hands of the followers of Christ, when they shall have got the victory of them; this is the flesh of the whore, her worldly substance, which the kings of the earth, the Christian kings, shall eat or enjoy, Revelation 17:16:

as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them: or "upon it"; the spoil; as these locusts, of which see Revelation 9:3 run to and fro, and pillaged them in times past, as the creatures, to whom they are compared, run to and fro and destroy the fruits of the earth, so now everyone of the followers of Christ shall run and seize upon the spoil of the antichristian states.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And your spoil - The booty that the Assyrian army bad gathered in their march toward Jerusalem, and which would now be left by them to be collected by the Jews.

Shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar - The grammatical construction here is such that this may admit of two interpretations. It may either mean, as the caterpillar or the locust is gathered; or it may mean, as the caterpillar gathers its spoil. It often occurred that in countries where the locust was an article of food, they were scraped together in large quantities, and thrown into ditches, or into reservoirs, and retained to be eaten. This is the custom in some parts of Africa. But the meaning here is, undoubtedly, that the plunder of the Assyrian army would be collected by the Jews, as the locust gathered its food. The sense is, that as locusts spread themselves out over a land, as they go to and fro without rule and without molestation, gathering whatever is in their way, and consuming everything, so the Jews in great numbers, and without regular military array, would run to and fro collecting the spoils of the Assyrian army. In a country where such devastation was made by the caterpillar and locust as in Palestine, this was a very striking figure. The word rendered ‘caterpillar’ here חסיל châs^eyl from חסל châsal to cut off, consume), properly denotes the devourer, and is applied usually to a species of locust. So it is understood here by most of the versions. The Septuagint renders it, ‘As if one were gathering locusts, so will they insult you.’