Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Your plunder disappears as if locusts were eating it; they swarm over it like locusts!
New American Standard Bible
As locusts rushing about men rush about 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.
Holman Bible
people will swarm over it like an infestation of locusts.
International Standard Version
Your plunder is gathered as when grasshoppers gather; just like locusts pounce, people have pounced on it.
A Conservative Version
And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. As locusts leap, men shall leap upon it.
American Standard Version
And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth: as locusts leap shall men leap upon it.
Amplified
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.
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.
Darby Translation
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running of locusts shall they run upon it.
Julia Smith Translation
And your spoil was gathered the gathering of the locust: as the running about of locusts he ran to and fro upon it
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And your spoil is gathered, [as] the gathering of the locust, as a swarm of locusts storming on it.
Modern King James verseion
And your spoil shall be gathered as the stripping locust gathers; as the running to and fro of locusts he shall run on them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and that their spoil may be gathered, as the grasshoppers are commonly gathered together into the pit.
New Heart English Bible
Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
The 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.
Webster
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 spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Agriculture » Foes of » Locusts
Armies » Compared to » Locusts
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 33:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh's Judgment And Help
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.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Kings 7:15-16
So they tracked them as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste. The scouts went back and told the king.
2 Chronicles 14:13
and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah carried off a huge amount of plunder.
2 Chronicles 20:25
Jehoshaphat and his men went to gather the plunder; they found a huge amount of supplies, clothing and valuable items. They carried away everything they could. There was so much plunder, it took them three days to haul it off.
Isaiah 33:23
Though at this time your ropes are slack, the mast is not secured, and the sail is not unfurled, at that time you will divide up a great quantity of loot; even the lame will drag off plunder.
Joel 2:9
They rush into the city; they scale its walls. They climb up into the houses; they go in through the windows like a thief.
Joel 2:25
I will make up for the years that the 'arbeh-locust consumed your crops -- the yeleq-locust, the hasil-locust, and the gazam-locust -- my great army that I sent against you.