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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Isaiah 33:4

And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the (h) caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall (i) he run upon them.

(h) You who as caterpillars destroyed with your number the whole world, will have no strength to resist your enemies the Chaldeans: but will be gathered on a heap and destroyed.

(i) Meaning, the Medes and Persians against the Chaldeans.

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See also Isaiah 33:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CATERPILLER . locusts....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Assurance of Jehovah's victory, founded on the great deliverances of the past. The perfects in Isaiah 33:3 may be either those of experience, expressing a general truth often verified in history, or o...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND YOUR SPOIL SHALL BE GATHERED— In this apostrophe to the enemy, we have the consequence of their overthrow; which should be the collection of their spoils, without order or distinction; just as loc...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    33:4 caterpillar. (b-12) Lit. 'the devourer.' see Psalms 78:46 ; Joel 1:4 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אֻסַּ֣ף שְׁלַלְכֶ֔ם אֹ֖סֶף הֶֽ חָסִ֑יל כְּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _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._ Ver. 4. _And your spoils shall be gathered._] The spoil of the...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _At the noise of the tumult_ Which shall be made upon the angel's destroying the army; _the people fled_ Namely, those of the army who escaped that stroke. _At the lifting up of thyself_ To execute ju...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PUNISHMENT STRIKES THE ADVERSARY...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 33:4 plunder H7998 gathered H622 (H8795) gathering H625 caterpillar H2625 fro H4944 locusts H1357 run H8264 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 33:3 WHEN YOU. That is, God. YOUR SPOIL. That is, the goods taken after the defeat of the “destroyer” nations; they are collected by God’s people, who benefit from his final vict...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION X. A PROPHECY OF JUDGMENT ON ASSYRIA (Isaiah 33:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 33:1 THE JUDGMENT ON ASSYRIA

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Your spoil — That treasure which you have raked together, by spoiling divers people. Gathered — By the Jews at Jerusalem, when you flee away. Like the caterpillar — As caterpillars gather and devour t...

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