Habakkuk 1:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ They all come for violence; terror of them goes before them. 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

And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

2 Kings 12:17

At that time Hazael king of Syria went up and 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 as the sand,

Psalm 139:18

If I would count them, they are more than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.

Isaiah 27:8

Measure by measure, by exile thou didst contend with them; he removed them with his fierce blast in the day of the east wind.

Jeremiah 15:8

I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, and for Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about; I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

Jeremiah 34:22

Behold, I will 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. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.”

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from 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 his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone forth from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.

Ezekiel 17:10

Behold, when it is transplanted, will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it grew?”

Ezekiel 19:12

But the vine 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, and he shall bring terms of peace and perform them. He shall give him the daughter of women to destroy the kingdom; but it shall not stand 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, “Sons of the living God.”

Hosea 13:15

Though he may flourish as the reed plant, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, 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 mercilessly slaying nations for ever?

Habakkuk 1:6

For lo, I am rousing the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize habitations not their own.

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved;

Judges 7:12

And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the seashore for multitude.