33:3 The nations run away when they hear a loud noise; 1
the nations scatter when you spring into action! 2
33:4 Your plunder 3 disappears as if locusts were eating it; 4
they swarm over it like locusts! 5
1 tn Heb “at the sound of tumult the nations run away.”
2 tn Heb “because of your exaltation the nations scatter.”
3 tn The pronoun is plural; the statement is addressed to the nations who have stockpiled plunder from their conquests of others.
4 tn Heb “and your plunder is gathered, the gathering of the locust.”
5 tn Heb “like a swarm of locusts swarming on it.”