Isaiah 33:4
Modern Translations
New International Version
Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts; like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.

New Living Translation
Just as caterpillars and locusts strip the fields and vines, so the fallen army of Assyria will be stripped!

English Standard Version
and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, it is leapt upon.

Berean Study Bible
Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.

New American Standard Bible
Your plunder is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; Like an infestation of locusts, people storm it.

NASB 1995
Your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; As locusts rushing about men rush about on it.

NASB 1977
And your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; As locusts rushing about, men rush about on it.

Amplified Bible
Your spoil [of Israel’s foe] is gathered [by the people of Jerusalem] as the caterpillar gathers; As locusts swarming so people swarm on it.

Christian Standard Bible
Your spoil will be gathered as locusts are gathered; people will swarm over it like an infestation of locusts.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your spoil will be gathered as locusts are gathered; people will swarm over it like an infestation of locusts.

Contemporary English Version
We attack our enemies like swarms of locusts; we take everything that belongs to them.

Good News Translation
Their belongings are pounced upon and taken as loot.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You nations, your loot is gathered as grasshoppers harvest a crop. Like swarming locusts, people rush for your loot.

International Standard Version
Your plunder is gathered as when grasshoppers gather; just like locusts pounce, people have pounced on it.

NET Bible
Your plunder disappears as if locusts were eating it; they swarm over it like locusts!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
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 King James Version
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.

King James 2000 Bible
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

New Heart English Bible
Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

World English Bible
Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

American King James Version
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run on them.

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

A Faithful Version
And your spoil shall be gathered as the stripping locust gathers; as the running to and fro of locusts they shall run upon them.

Darby Bible Translation
And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running of locusts shall they run upon it.

English Revised Version
And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpiller gathereth: as locusts leap shall they leap upon it.

Webster's Bible Translation
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And your spoyle shall be gathered like the gathering of caterpillers: and he shall go against him like the leaping of grashoppers.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And the spoyles shalbe gathered, which shalbe yours, as are the gathetheryng of Bruchus, and the multitude goyng to it shalbe as Locustes, running to and fro.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
and that their spoyle maye be gathered, as the greshoppers are comonly gathered together in to the pyt.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And Your spoil has been gathered, "" A gathering of the caterpillar, "" As a running to and fro of locusts "" He is running on it.

Young's Literal Translation
And gathered hath been your spoil, A gathering of the caterpillar, As a running to and fro of locusts is he running on it.

Smith's Literal Translation
And your spoil was gathered the gathering of the locust: as the running about of locusts he ran to and fro upon it.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And your spoils shall be gathered together as the locusts are gathered, as when the ditches are full of them.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And your spoils will be gathered together, just as the locusts are collected when the ditches have become filled with them.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Therefore your loot shall be gathered as the gathering of crawling locusts, and like a gathering of locusts that are assembled

Lamsa Bible
Henceforth your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar; as a swarm of locusts when it is gathered together.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathereth; As locusts leap do they leap upon it.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And now shall the spoils of your small and great be gathered: as if one should gather locusts, so shall they mock you.
















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