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The nations run away when they hear a loud noise;[a]
the nations scatter when you spring into action![b]
Your plunder[c] disappears as if locusts were eating it;[d]
they swarm over it like locusts.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 33:3 tn Heb “at the sound of tumult the nations run away.”
  2. Isaiah 33:3 tn Heb “because of your exaltation the nations scatter.”
  3. Isaiah 33:4 tn The pronoun is plural; the statement is addressed to the nations who have stockpiled plunder from their conquests of others.
  4. Isaiah 33:4 tn Heb “and your plunder is gathered, the gathering of the locust.”
  5. Isaiah 33:4 tn Heb “like a swarm of locusts swarming on it.”

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.

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