Isaiah 33:4

Your plunder ¹  disappears as if locusts were eating it; ²  they swarm over it like locusts! ³ 

Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts; like a swarm of locusts men pounce on it.

Your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; As locusts rushing about men rush about on it.

Just as locusts strip the fields and vines, so Jerusalem will strip the fallen army of Assyria!

[Your] people, for a change, got in on the loot, picking the field clean of the enemy spoils.

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.

Spoil was gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, they leaped upon it.

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.

Your plunder ¹  disappears as if locusts were eating it; ²  they swarm over it like locusts! ³ 

¹ tn The pronoun is plural; the statement is addressed to the nations who have stockpiled plunder from their conquests of others.

² tn Heb “and your plunder is gathered, the gathering of the locust.”

³ tn Heb “like a swarm of locusts swarming on it.”