Isaiah 33:4
“Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.”
What does Isaiah 33:4 mean?
When enemies defeat a nation, they scatter to grab whatever they can carry away, like caterpillars stripping a plant bare. Isaiah is describing how thoroughly and completely the wealth of Judah's enemies will be taken as spoil, comparing the greedy scramble to the relentless way insects consume vegetation. The image emphasizes total loss and chaos, where there's no organized distribution of goods but rather a frenzied grabbing by many hands at once. It's Isaiah's way of saying that those who threatened God's people would themselves be stripped of everything in their turn.