Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Your plunder is gathered as when grasshoppers gather; just like locusts pounce, people have pounced on it.
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.
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.
NET Bible
Your plunder disappears as if locusts were eating it; they swarm over it like locusts!
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 At the thunder of your voice, the nations flee; at your silence, the nations scatter. 4 Your plunder is gathered as when grasshoppers gather; just like locusts pounce, people have pounced on it. 5 "The LORD is exalted, for he lives on high; he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Kings 7:15-16
They went out in the direction of the Jordan River, and the entire roadway was strewn with clothes and equipment that the Arameans had abandoned in their haste to leave! So the messengers returned and reported to the king.
2 Chronicles 14:13
Asa and his army pursued the Ethiopians as far as Gerar. So many Ethiopians died that their army could not recover, because it had been shattered in the LORD's presence and in the presence of his army. The Israelis carried off a lot of plunder, too.
2 Chronicles 20:25
Later on, when Jehoshaphat and his army arrived to collect the spoils of war, they discovered there were far more goods, garments, and other valuable items to collect than they could carry off in a single day. There was so much material that it took three days to finish their collection efforts.
Isaiah 33:23
"Your rigging hangs loose; it cannot reliably hold the mast in its place, and the sail cannot spread out. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided even the lame will carry off plunder.
Joel 2:9
They swarm through the city, running upon its ramparts. Climbing atop the houses, they enter through windows like a thief."
Joel 2:25
"Then I will restore to you the years that the locust swarm devoured, as did the young locust, the other locusts, and the ravaging locust, that great army of mine that I sent among you.