Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 33:4
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Isaiah33:4
4. And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar : as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
That Treasure which you have raked together, by spoiling divers People.
By the Iews at Ierusalem, when you shall be forced to flee away with all possible speed, leaving your Spoils behind you.
Either 1. passively, with as much ease, and in as great numbers as Caterpillars are gathered and destroyed. Or rather 2. actively, as appears from the next Clause; as Caterpillers or Locusts (for the Word signifies either) gather and devour all the Fruits of the Earth; which was a common Plague in those Countries.
As Locusts, especially when they are sent, and Armed by commission from God, come with great force, and run hither and thither, devouring all the Fruits of the Earth, wheresoever they find them.
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