Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and that their spoil may be gathered, as the grasshoppers are commonly gathered together into the pit.

New American Standard Bible

Your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers;
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

Your spoil will be gathered as locusts are gathered;
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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁלל 
Shalal 
Usage: 73

אסף 
'acaph 
Usage: 199

אסף 
'oceph 
Usage: 3

of the caterpiller
חסיל 
Chaciyl 
Usage: 6

as the running to and fro
משּׁק 
Mashshaq 
running to and fro
Usage: 1

of locusts
גּב 
Geb 
Usage: 1

shall he run
שׁקק 
Shaqaq 
Usage: 6

References

American

Easton

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Yahweh's Judgment And Help

3 Grant that the people may flee at the anger of thy voice, and that at thine upstanding the Gentiles may be scattered abroad; 4 and that their spoil may be gathered, as the grasshoppers are commonly gathered together into the pit. 5 Stand up LORD, thou that dwellest on high: Let Zion be filled with equity and righteousness.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:15-16

And they followed after them even unto Jordan: and see, all the way was full of clothes and vessels which the Syrians had cast from them for haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.

2 Chronicles 14:13

And Asa, and the people that was with him, followed after them as far as Gerar. And the black Moors were overthrown, that there bode none alive of them, but were destroyed of the LORD and of his Host. And they carried away a mighty great prey.

2 Chronicles 20:25

And Jehoshaphat and his people went to rob away the spoil of them and found among them abundance of goods and raiment and of pleasant Jewels, and caught from them more than they could carry away: so that they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.

Isaiah 33:23

There are the cords so laid abroad, that they cannot be better; The mast set up of such a fashion, that no banner nor sail hangeth thereon; but there is dealt great spoil: yea, lame men run after the prey;

Joel 2:9

They shall come into the city, and run upon the walls; They shall climb up upon the houses, and slip in at the windows like a thief.

Joel 2:25

And I will restore you again, with my great power which I have sent unto you, the years which the locusts and caterpillars have devoured.

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