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Habakkuk 1:9

Judgment

7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his 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.

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Cross references

  • Jeremiah 25:9

    Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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  • Psalms 139:18

    If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

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  • Job 29:18

    Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

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  • Habakkuk 2:5–13

    Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

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  • Judges 7:12

    And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.

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  • Deuteronomy 28:51–52

    And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.

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  • Genesis 41:49

    And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

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  • Isaiah 27:8

    In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

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