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Habakkuk 1:9

Judgment

7 They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty.

8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.

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

10 They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.

11 Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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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.
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.
DARBY
They come all of them for violence: the crowd of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.
BLB
They all come for violence; the full force of their faces [is] the east wind, and they gather captives like the sand.
ÅB
Alle kommer de for å gjøre voldsverk, de stirrer stridslystne fremad, og de samler fanger som sand.
OTB
De kommer alle for vold,
deres ansikter vendt fremover.
De samler fanger som sand.
B1930
Alle kommer de for å gjøre voldsverk, de stirrer stridslystne fremad, og de samler fanger som sand.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Jeremiah 25:9

    behold, 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 surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.

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  • Psalms 139:18

    If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.

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  • Job 29:18

    So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.

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  • Habakkuk 2:5–13

    and 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 own.

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  • Judges 7:12

    Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.

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  • Deuteronomy 28:51–52

    They 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 caused you to perish.

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  • Genesis 41:49

    So 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.

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  • Isaiah 27:8

    By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.

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