So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance #– #like the sand of the sea #– #that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.
Habakkuk 1:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised All of them come to do violence; their faces are set in determination. They gather prisoners like sand. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 They all come for violence; their faces turn eagerly forward, and they gather prisoners together like sand. American Standard Version (1901) They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand. Common English Bible They come for violence, the horde with all their faces set toward the desert. He takes captives like sand. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 They shall all come to the prey, their face is like a burning wind: and they shall gather together captives as the sand. |
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance #– #like the sand of the sea #– #that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.
At that time King Hazael of Aram marched up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he planned to attack Jerusalem.
So I thought, ‘I will die in my own nest and multiply my days as the sand.
You disputed with Israel by banishing and driving her away. He removed her with his severe storm on the day of the east wind.
I made their widows more numerous than the sand of the seas. I brought a destroyer at noon against the mother of young men. I suddenly released on her agitation and terrors.
I am going to send for all the families of the north” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #”and send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror and scorn, and ruins for ever.
I am about to give the command #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it. I will make Judah’s cities a desolation, without inhabitant.’
‘At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind blows from the barren heights in the wilderness on the way to my dear people. It comes not to winnow or to sift;
A lion has gone up from his thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to make your land a waste. Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.
Even though it is planted, will it flourish? Won’t it wither completely when the east wind strikes it? It will wither on the plot where it sprouted.” ’
But it was uprooted in fury, thrown to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were torn off and dried up; fire consumed them.
He will resolve to come with the force of his whole kingdom and will reach an agreement with him. He will give him a daughter in marriage to destroy it, but she will not stand with him or support him.
Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And in the place where they were told: You are not my people, they will be called: Sons of the living God.
Although he flourishes among his brothers, , an east wind will come, a wind from the Lord rising up from the desert. His water source will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder the treasury of every precious item.
Will they therefore empty their net and continually slaughter nations without mercy?
Look! I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter, impetuous nation that marches across the earth’s open spaces to seize territories not its own.
But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, Though the number of Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved;
Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the people of the east had settled down in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.