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Isaiah 33:4
4You nations, after the battle your valuable things will quickly disappear! It will seem like locusts have eaten them all. Yes, we will take it all, like a hungry crowd of locusts.
Isaiah 33:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts; like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.
- English Standard Version (ESV)and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, it is leapt upon.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And Your plunder shall be gathered Like the gathering of the caterpillar; As the running to and fro of locusts, He shall run upon them.
Context of Isaiah 33:4
2Lord, please be kind to us. We wait for you to help us. Make us strong every day. Rescue us when trouble happens. 3When they hear the noise of battle, the nations run away. When you go to war, they run in every direction! You nations, after the battle your valuable things will quickly disappear! It will seem like locusts have eaten them all. Yes, we will take it all, like a hungry crowd of locusts. 5The Lord is greater than all others. He lives high above the earth. He will cause Zion's people to do what is right and fair. 6Whatever happens, he will cause you to be strong. He will always keep you safe, and he will make you wise, so that you understand things. Respect the Lord with fear, and he will do all this for you.
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וְאֻסַּ֣ף שְׁלַלְכֶ֔ם אֹ֖סֶף הֶֽחָסִ֑יל כְּמַשַּׁ֥ק גֵּבִ֖ים שׁוֹקֵ֥ק בּֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 33:4
- Isaiah 33:23At this time, your ship is not ready to go anywhere. You have not tied the ropes. There is nowhere to hang the sails. But then, you will take many valuable things from your enemies. You will share them after the battle. Even people who cannot walk well will carry away what they want!
- 2 Kings 7:15The king's men followed the Syrian soldiers as far as the Jordan River. They saw many things that the soldiers had dropped along the road. They had dropped clothes and weapons because they were in a hurry to run away. So the men returned to the king. They told him what they had seen.
- 2 Chronicles 14:13Asa and his soldiers chased after them until they reached Gerar. So many Ethiopian soldiers died there that their army could not fight any more. The Lord and his army completely destroyed them. Judah's soldiers carried away lots of their enemies' things for themselves.
- 2 Chronicles 20:25So Jehoshaphat and his men went to take things from the dead soldiers. They found a lot of weapons, clothes and other valuable things. They took as many things as they could carry. There were so many things that it took them three days to take them all away.
- Joel 2:9They run towards the city. They run along the wall. They climb into houses. They go through the windows like robbers.
Commentaries on Isaiah 33:4
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4And your spoil - The booty that the Assyrian army bad gathered in their march toward Jerusalem, and which would now be left by them to be collected by the Jews. Shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar - The grammatical construction here is such that this may admit of two interpretations. It may either mean, as the caterpillar or the locust is gathered; or it may mean, as the caterpillar gathers its spoil. It often occurred that in…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. The invaders' "spoil" shall be left behind by them in their flight, and the Jews shall gather it. caterpillar--rather, "the wingless locust"; as it gathers; the Hebrew word for "gathers" is properly used of the gathering of the fruits of harvest (Is 32:10). running to and fro--namely, in gathering harvest fruits. he--rather, "they." them--rather, "it," that is, the prey.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 33
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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