33:4 Your plunder 1 disappears as if locusts were eating it; 2
they swarm over it like locusts! 3
33:5 The Lord is exalted, 4
indeed, 5 he lives in heaven; 6
he fills Zion with justice and fairness.
1 tn The pronoun is plural; the statement is addressed to the nations who have stockpiled plunder from their conquests of others.
2 tn Heb “and your plunder is gathered, the gathering of the locust.”
3 tn Heb “like a swarm of locusts swarming on it.”
4 tn Or “elevated”; NCV, NLT “is very great.”
5 tn Or “for” (KJV, NASB, NIV).
6 tn Heb “on high” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “in the heavens.”