Habakkuk 1:9 “All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east…”

Habakkuk 1:9

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.

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Cross references

“for”

Jeremiah 25:9 Habakkuk 1:6 Habakkuk 2:5–13 Jeremiah 4:7 Jeremiah 5:15–17 Deuteronomy 28:51

Jeremiah 25:9 · BSB

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 surro…

Habakkuk 1:6 · BSB

For 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.

Habakkuk 2:5–13 · BSB

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 ow…

Jeremiah 4:7 · BSB

A 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.

Jeremiah 5:15–17 · BSB

Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.

Deuteronomy 28:51 · BSB

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…

“their faces shall sup up as the east”

Isaiah 27:8 Jeremiah 4:11 Ezekiel 17:10 Ezekiel 19:12 Hosea 13:15

Isaiah 27:8 · BSB

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

Jeremiah 4:11 · BSB

At 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;

Ezekiel 17:10 · BSB

Even 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.’”

Ezekiel 19:12 · BSB

But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.

Hosea 13:15 · BSB

Although 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 precious…

“they shall gather”

Genesis 41:49 Judges 7:12 Job 29:18 Psalm 139:18 Jeremiah 15:8 Jeremiah 34:22

Genesis 41:49 · BSB

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.

Judges 7:12 · BSB

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.

Job 29:18 · BSB

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

Psalm 139:18 · BSB

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

Jeremiah 15:8 · BSB

I 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.

Jeremiah 34:22 · BSB

Behold, 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 inha…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8Their 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.

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

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