Parallel Verses
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.
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
When you make a sound the peoples flee. When you rise up, the nations scatter.
4
As locusts rushing about men rush about on it.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Kings 7:15-16
The men went to the Jordan. Along the road they saw the clothes and equipment that the Syrians had abandoned as they fled. Then they returned and reported to the king.
2 Chronicles 14:13
Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. It was a total defeat! The Ethiopians could not even fight back! The soldiers from Judah took everything that had belonged to the Ethiopians.
2 Chronicles 20:25
Jehoshaphat and his troops came to take the loot. They found among them a lot of goods, clothes, and valuables. They found more than they could carry. They spent three days collecting the loot.
Isaiah 33:23
Your rigging hangs loose. The mast is not held secure and the sail is not spread. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided and even the lame will carry off plunder.
Joel 2:9
They rush to the city. They run on the wall. They climb into the houses. They enter in at the windows like a thief.
Joel 2:25
I will make up to you the years that the locust has eaten, my great army that I sent among you.