Habakkuk 1:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ They all come for violence, with faces pressing forward; they gather captives like sand.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ They all come for violence; their faces turn eagerly forward, and they gather prisoners together like sand.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.

Common English Bible

⁹ They come for violence, the horde with all their faces set toward the desert. He takes captives like sand.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ They will all approach towards the prey; their face is like a burning wind. And they will gather captives together like sand.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ They shall all come to the prey, their face is like a burning wind: and they shall gather together captives as the sand.

Habakkuk 1:9 Cross References

Genesis 41:49

So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance—like the sand of the sea—that he stopped measuring it; it was beyond measure.

2 Kings 12:17

At that time King Hazael of Aram went up, fought against Gath, and took it. But when Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem,

Job 29:18

Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days like the phoenix;

Psalm 139:18

I try to count them—they are more than the sand; I come to the end—I am still with you.

Isaiah 27:8

By expulsion, by exile you struggled against them; with his fierce blast he removed them in the day of the east wind.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows became more numerous than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of youths a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon her suddenly.

Jeremiah 25:9

I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting disgrace.

Jeremiah 34:22

I am going to command, says the Lord, and will bring them back to this city, and they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire. The towns of Judah I will make a desolation without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A hot wind comes from me out of the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has gone up from its thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.

Ezekiel 17:10

Look, it has been transplanted. Will it thrive? When the east wind strikes it, will it not utterly wither, wither on the bed where it grew?

Ezekiel 19:12

But it was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried it up; its fruit was stripped off; its strong stem was withered; the fire consumed it.

Daniel 11:17

He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom. He shall make peace with him and shall give him a woman in marriage, in order to destroy the kingdom, but it shall not succeed or be to his advantage.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered, and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”

Hosea 13:15

Although he may flourish among rushes, the east wind shall come, a blast from the Lord, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched. It shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.

Habakkuk 1:17

Is he then to keep on emptying his net and destroying nations without mercy?

Habakkuk 1:6

For I am rousing the Chaldeans, that fierce and impetuous nation, who march through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,

Judges 7:12

The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east lay along the valley as thick as locusts, and their camels were without number, countless as the sand on the seashore.