Isaiah 21:17

21:17 Just a handful of archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be left.” Indeed, the Lord God of Israel has spoken.

Isaiah 33:4

33:4 Your plunder disappears as if locusts were eating it;

they swarm over it like locusts!


tn Heb “and the remnant of the number of the bow, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few.”

tn Or “for” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).

tn The pronoun is plural; the statement is addressed to the nations who have stockpiled plunder from their conquests of others.

tn Heb “and your plunder is gathered, the gathering of the locust.”

tn Heb “like a swarm of locusts swarming on it.”