Isaiah 33:3-5

Contemporary English Version

³Nations scatter when you roar
    and show your greatness.^[a]
⁴We attack our enemies
    like swarms of locusts;^[b]
we take everything
    that belongs to them.^[c]

⁵You, Lord, are above all others,
and you live in the heavens.
You have brought justice
and fairness to Jerusalem;

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Footnotes

33.3 greatness: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 3.
33.4 locusts: Insects like grasshoppers that travel in swarms and cause great damage to crops.
33.4 them: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 4.

Isaiah 33:3-5

New International Version

³At the uproar of your army,^(A) the peoples flee;^(B)
when you rise up,^(C) the nations scatter.
⁴Your plunder,^(D) O nations, is harvested^(E) as by young locusts;^(F)
like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.