Habakkuk 1:9

New Century Version

They all come to fight. Nothing can stop them. Their prisoners are as many as the grains of sand.

Cross References

Genesis 41:49

Joseph stored much grain, as much as the sand of the seashore—so much that he could not measure it.

2 Kings 12:17

About this time Hazael king of Aram attacked Gath and captured it. Then he went to attack Jerusalem.

Job 29:18

“I thought, ‘I will live for as many days as there are grains of sand, and I will die in my own house.

Psalm 139:18

If I could count them, they would be more than all the grains of sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

Isaiah 27:8

He will settle his argument with Israel by sending it far away. Like a hot desert wind, he will drive it away.

Jeremiah 15:8

There are more widows than grains of sand in the sea. I brought a destroyer at noontime against the mothers of the young men of Judah. I suddenly brought pain and fear on the people of Judah.

Jeremiah 25:9

I will send for all the peoples of the north,” says the Lord, “along with my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I will bring them all against Judah, those who live there, and all the nations around you, too. I will completely destroy all those countries and leave them in ruins forever. People will be shocked when they see how badly I have destroyed those countries.

Jeremiah 34:22

I will give the order, says the Lord, to bring the Babylonian army back to Jerusalem. It will fight against Jerusalem, capture it, set it on fire, and burn it down. I will destroy the towns in Judah so that they become ruins where no one lives!”

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time this message will be given to Judah and Jerusalem: “A hot wind blows from the bare hilltops of the desert toward the Lord’s people. It is not a gentle wind to separate grain from chaff.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has come out of his den; a destroyer of nations has begun to march. He has left his home to destroy your land. Your towns will be destroyed with no one left to live in them.

Ezekiel 17:10

Even if it is planted again, it will not continue to grow. It will completely dry up and die when the east wind hits it in the area where it grew.’ ”

Ezekiel 19:12

But it was pulled up by its roots in anger and thrown down to the ground. The east wind dried it up. Its fruit was torn off. Its strong branches were broken off and burned up.

Daniel 11:17

The king of the North will decide to use all his power to fight against the king of the South, but he will make a peace agreement with the king of the South. The king of the North will give one of his daughters as a wife to the king of the South so that he can defeat him. But those plans will not succeed or help him.

Hosea 1:10

“But the number of the Israelites will become like the grains of sand of the sea, which no one can measure or count. They were called, ‘You are not my people,’ but later they will be called ‘children of the living God.’

Hosea 13:15

Israel is doing well among the nations, but the Lord will send a wind from the east, coming from the desert, that will dry up his springs and wells of water. He will destroy from their treasure houses everything of value.

Habakkuk 1:17

Will he keep on taking riches with his net? Will he go on destroying people without showing mercy?

Habakkuk 1:6

I will use the Babylonians, those cruel and wild people who march across the earth and take lands that don’t belong to them.

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah cries out about Israel: “The people of Israel are many, like the grains of sand by the sea. But only a few of them will be saved,

Judges 7:12

The Midianites, the Amalekites, and all the peoples from the east were camped in that valley. There were so many of them they seemed like locusts. Their camels could not be counted because they were as many as the grains of sand on the seashore!