KJVAnd your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth: as locusts leap shall men leap upon it.
Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.
And gathered hath been your spoil, A gathering of the caterpillar, As a running to and fro of locusts is he running on it.
And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running of locusts shall they run upon it.
Isaiah — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
1. Wo to thee that spoilest. If these words shall be expounded as relating to the Babylonians, the strain will flow easily enough; for, after having promised freedom to the prisoners, (Isaiah 32:15,) he now appropriately taunts the conquerors. Besides, they needed to be peculiarly confirmed, that they might give…