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Isaiah 33:4
Isaiah 33:4 is verse 4 of Isaiah chapter 33, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.
O nations is added for clarity.
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.
World English Bible
Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
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Isaiah 33:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible
2 O LORD, be gracious to us! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble.
3 The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise.
4 Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.
5 The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
6 He will be the sure foundation for your times, a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Isaiah 33:23Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.
2 Kings 7:15And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in haste. So the scouts returned and told the king.
2 Kings 7:16Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. It was then that a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 14:13Then Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell and could not recover, for they were crushed before the LORD and His army. So the people of Judah carried off a great amount of plunder
2 Chronicles 20:25Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to carry off the plunder, and they found on the bodies an abundance of goods and valuables —more than they could carry away. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.
Joel 2:9They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.
Joel 2:25I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust — My great army that I sent against you.