Habakkuk 1:9

In 11 translations

BSB

All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.

KJV

They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.their…: or, the supping up of their faces, etc: or, their faces shall look (Heb. the opposition of their faces) toward the east

WEB

All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.

ASV

They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.

LSV

All for violence—he comes in, || Their faces swallowing up the east wind, || And he gathers a captivity as the sand.

YLT

Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.

DBY

They come all of them for violence: the crowd of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.

DRC

They shall all come to the prey, their face is like a burning wind: and they shall gather together captives as the sand.

GNV

They come all to spoyle: before their faces shalbe an Eastwinde, and they shall gather the captiuitie, as the sand.

JPS

They come all of them for violence; their faces are set eagerly as the east wind; and they gather captives as the sand.

LXXE

Destruction shall come upon ungodly men, resisting with their adverse front, and he shall gather the captivity as the sand.

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WLC

כֻּלֹּה֙ לְחָמָ֣ס יָב֔וֹא מְגַמַּ֥ת פְּנֵיהֶ֖ם קָדִ֑ימָה וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ף כַּח֖וֹל שֶֽׁבִי׃

LXX-Br

Συντέλεια εἰς ἀσεβεῖς ἥξει, ἀνθεστηκότας προσώποις αὐτῶν ἐξεναντίας, καὶ συνάξει ὡς ἄμμον αἰχμαλωσίαν·

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• Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the…
• Psalms 139:18If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
• Jeremiah 4:7A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.
• Job 29:18So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
• Habakkuk 1:6For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans — that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.
• Hosea 13:15Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come— a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every…
• Isaiah 27:8By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.
• Hosea 1:10Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called…
• Ezekiel 17:10Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.’”
• Jeremiah 34:22Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without…
• Romans 9:27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
• Genesis 41:49So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.
• Habakkuk 2:5–13and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his…
• Jeremiah 4:11At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;
• Jeremiah 15:8I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
• Deuteronomy 28:51–52They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have…

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