Habakkuk 1:9

New American Bible - revised edition

All of them come for violence, their combined onslaught, a stormwind to gather up captives like sand.

Cross References

Genesis 41:49

Joseph collected grain like the sands of the sea, so much that at last he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.

2 Kings 12:17

The funds from reparation offerings and from purification offerings, however, were not brought to the house of the Lord; they belonged to the priests.

Job 29:18

I said: “In my own nest I shall grow old; I shall multiply years like the phoenix.

Psalm 139:18

Were I to count them, they would outnumber the sands; when I complete them, still you are with me.

Isaiah 27:8

Driving out and expelling, he struggled against it, carrying it off with his cruel wind on a day of storm.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows were more numerous before me than the sands of the sea. I brought against the mother of youths the destroyer at midday; Suddenly I struck her with anguish and terror.

Jeremiah 25:9

I am about to send for and fetch all the tribes from the north—oracle of the Lord—and I will send for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all these neighboring nations. I will doom them, making them an object of horror, of hissing, of everlasting reproach.

Jeremiah 34:22

I am giving the command—oracle of the Lord—to bring them back to this city. They shall attack and capture it, and burn it with fire; the cities of Judah I will turn into a waste, where no one dwells.

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A scorching wind from the bare heights comes through the wilderness toward my daughter, the people. Not to winnow, not to cleanse,

Jeremiah 4:7

Up comes the lion from its lair, the destroyer of nations has set out, has left its place, To turn your land into a desolation, your cities into an uninhabited waste.

Ezekiel 17:10

True, it is planted; but will it thrive? Will it not wither up When the east wind strikes it, wither in the very bed where it sprouted?

Ezekiel 19:12

But she was torn out in fury and flung to the ground; The east wind withered her up, her fruit was plucked away; Her strongest branch dried up, fire devoured it.

Daniel 11:17

He shall resolve to come with the entire strength of his kingdom. He shall make an alliance with him and give him a daughter in marriage in order to destroy him, but this shall not stand.

Hosea 13:15

Though Ephraim may flourish among his brothers, an east wind will come, a wind from the Lord, rising from the wilderness, That will dry up his spring, and leave his fountain dry. It will loot his treasury of every precious thing.

Habakkuk 1:17

Shall they, then, keep on drawing his sword to slaughter nations without mercy?

Habakkuk 1:6

For now I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and impulsive people, Who march the breadth of the land to take dwellings not their own.

Romans 9:27

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

Judges 7:12

The Midianites, Amalekites, and all the Kedemites were lying in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could not be counted, for they were as many as the sands on the seashore.