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Your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathers: as locusts leap shall men leap on it.
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The Great Reversal
Commentators agree that this verse promises a dramatic reversal of fortunes. The Assyrian invaders, who came to plunder and destroy, will themselves be plundered. God demonstrates His justice by turning the tables on the oppressors, showing that those who live by spoiling others will ultimately be spoiled themselves.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And your spoil – The booty that the Assyrian army had gathered in their march toward Jerusalem, and which would now be left by them to be co…
19th Century
Anglican
Your spoil ... —The words are addressed to the invader. He who came to spoil should find himself spoiled. As caterpillars…
16th Century
Protestant
And your prey shall be gathered. Here he addresses the Assyrians, unless it is considered preferable to refer it to the Jews and to take t…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
This is the …
Here we have the proud and false destroyer justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence. The righteous God often pays sinners in their own c…
13th Century
Catholic
1. Woe to you who plunder. In this part, the prophet begins to foretell the destruction of Israel’s enemies. This is presented in t…
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