Isaiah 33:4 meaning and explanation

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

Isaiah 33:4, Berean Standard Bible

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Isaiah 33 speaks to Jerusalem under threat from Assyria, and the chapter opens with a woe to a destroyer who will himself be destroyed. In verse 4 the prophet pictures the aftermath of God's rising: the spoil of the nations is gathered as locusts gather a harvest, and men sweep over it like a swarm.

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