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At the thunder of your voice, people flee.
When you stir up your great power, nations scatter.
Your plunder will be taken away
    the way a caterpillar[a] eats things up.
People will swarm on it like a locust swarm.
The Lord is exalted, because he dwells on high.
He will fill Zion with justice and righteousness.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 33:4 The term refers to a life stage or a type of locust.

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

The Lord is exalted,(G) for he dwells on high;(H)
    he will fill Zion with his justice(I) and righteousness.(J)

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