Isaiah 33:4

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

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In The 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.

In Context

3From the voice of the Angel, the people fled. And from your exultation, the nations were scattered.

5The Lord has been magnified, because he has lived on high. He has filled Zion with judgment and justice.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 14:13And Asa, and the people who were with him, pursued them as far as Gerar. And the Ethiopians fell, even unto utter destruction, for the Lord was striking, and his army was battling, and they were destroyed. Therefore, they took many spoils.

Isaiah 33:23Your ropes have become loose, and they will not prevail. Your mast will be such that you will not be able to unfurl a flag. Then the spoils of much plunder will be divided. The lame will seize the spoils.

Joel 2:9They will advance into the city; they will rush through the wall. They will scale the houses; they will go in through the windows, like a thief.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 33:2-13

Assyria Threatened. ( b. c. 710.) 1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. 2 O Lord , be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. 3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself… Read the whole commentary →

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