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isaiah 33:4

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Isaiah 33:4

King James Version (KJV)

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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.

Isaiah 33:4 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Isaiah 33:4

Theological / Devotional

Your spoil. This refers to the plundering of the Assyrian camp after the annihilation of the invaders and the precipitate flight of the few survivors. As caterpillars and locusts devour everything green, so the Hebrews would, in due time, strip the haughty Assyrians bare.

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