Isaiah 33:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.

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  • 2 Kgs 7:15-16 : 15 And they went after them as far as Jordan; and all the road was covered with clothing and vessels dropped by the Aramaeans in their flight. So those who were sent went back and gave the news to the king. 16 Then the people went out and took the goods from the tents of the Aramaeans. So a measure of good meal was to be had for the price of a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, as the Lord had said.
  • 2 Chr 14:13 : 13 And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they took away a great amount of their goods.
  • 2 Chr 20:25 : 25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their goods from them, they saw beasts in great numbers, and wealth and clothing and things of value, more than they were able to take away; all this they took for themselves, and they were three days getting it away, there was so much.
  • Isa 33:23 : 23 Your cords have become loose; they were not able to make strong the support of their sails, the sail was not stretched out: then the blind will take much property, the feeble-footed will make division of the goods of war.
  • Joel 2:9 : 9 They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.
  • Joel 2:25 : 25 I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.

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    15 There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

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    17 Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.

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    14 The Lord of armies has taken an oath by himself, saying, Truly, I will make you full with men as with locusts, and their voices will be loud against you.

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    3 At the loud noise the peoples have gone in flight; at your coming up the nations have gone in all directions.

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    46 He gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts.

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  • Jer 30:16
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    23 They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.

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