Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
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.
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 noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered. 4 Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap. 5 Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Kings 7:15-16
They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.
2 Chronicles 14:13
Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh, and before his army; and they carried away very much booty.
2 Chronicles 20:25
When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much.
Isaiah 33:23
Your rigging is untied. They couldn't strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn't spread the sail. Then the prey of a great spoil was divided. The lame took the prey.
Joel 2:9
They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.
Joel 2:25
I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.