Habakkuk 1:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁹ They come all of them for violence; their faces are set eagerly as the east wind; and they gather captives as the 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 laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

2 Kings 12:17

Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

Job 29:18

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:

Psalm 139:18

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

Isaiah 27:8

In measure, when thou sendest her away, thou dost contend with her; he hath removed her with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and I will send unto 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 I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 34:22

Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse;

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place; to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

Ezekiel 17:10

Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither; when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the beds where it grew.

Ezekiel 19:12

But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.

Daniel 11:17

And he shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; and he shall do his pleasure: and he shall give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; but she shall not stand, neither be for him.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

Hosea 13:15

Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the breath of the LORD coming up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

Habakkuk 1:17

Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to slay the nations continually?

Habakkuk 1:6

For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation; which march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:

Judges 7:12

And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea shore for multitude.