Isaiah 33:4

Isaiah 33:4 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

4Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts;

like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.

4Your plunder is gathered as the caterpillar gathers;

Like an infestation of locusts, people storm it.

4Your spoil [of Israel’s foe] is gathered [by the people of Jerusalem] as the caterpillar gathers;

As locusts swarming so people swarm on it.

4Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts;

like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.

4And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth: as locusts leap shall men leap upon it.

4And your spoyle shall be gathered like the gathering of caterpillers: and he shall go against him like the leaping of grashoppers.

4Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers.

Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

4Nations, what you have taken in battle is destroyed.

It’s as if young locusts had eaten it up.

Like large numbers of locusts,

people rush to get it.

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.

4And Your spoil has been gathered, || A gathering of the caterpillar, || As a running to and fro of locusts || He is running on it.