Habakkuk 1:9

Modern English Version

They all come for violence; their forces advance like the east wind. They gather captives like sand.

Cross References

Genesis 41:49

Joseph gathered great quantities of grain as the sand of the sea until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.

2 Kings 12:17

Then Hazael king of Aram went up, fought against Gath, and seized it. Then Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

Job 29:18

“Then I said, ‘I will die in my nest, and I will multiply my days as the sand.

Psalm 139:18

Were I to count them, they would be in number more than the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.

Isaiah 27:8

You fought with them by banishing them, by driving them away. He has expelled them on the day of the east wind with His fierce wind.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows will increase before Me more than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man, a destroyer at noonday; I will suddenly bring down on her sorrow and terrors.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations; I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 34:22

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

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of My people, not to fan or to cleanse,

Jeremiah 4:7

The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way. He has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate. And your cities shall be laid waste without an inhabitant.

Ezekiel 17:10

Behold, though it has been planted, will it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind hits it? It shall wither in the furrows where it grew.

Ezekiel 19:12

But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong rod was broken and it withered; the fire consumed it.

Daniel 11:17

He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, bringing with him a proposal of peace which he shall put into effect. And he shall give him the daughter of women to corrupt it. But she shall not stand on his side or be for him.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the Israelites will be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not My people,” there it will be said to them, “You are the sons of the living God.”

Hosea 13:15

Though he be fruitful among his brothers, the east wind will come, a wind of the Lord, rising from the wilderness. And his spring shall become dry, his fountain shall be dried up. It shall plunder his treasury of every desirable thing.

Habakkuk 1:17

Shall they continue to empty their net, and continually kill the nations while not sparing anyone?

Habakkuk 1:6

For I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation which marches through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

Romans 9:27

Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

Judges 7:12

Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the Kedemites covered the valley like locusts; and their camels could not be counted, for they were as numerous as grains of sand on the seashore.