Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
All of him shall come for violence; the gathering of their faces is forward; and they gather captives like the sand.
New American Standard Bible
They collect captives like sand.
King James Version
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
Holman Bible
their faces
They gather
International Standard Version
"They all come to oppress hordes of them, their faces pressing onward they take prisoners as numerous as the desert sand!
A Conservative Version
They come all of them for violence. The set of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.
American Standard Version
They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.
Amplified
“They all come for violence;
Their horde of faces moves [eagerly] forward,
They gather prisoners like sand.
Bible in Basic English
They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.
Darby Translation
They come all of them for violence: the crowd of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.
Julia Smith Translation
Wholly for violence shall he come: the host of their faces forwards, and he shall gather a captivity as the sand.
King James 2000
They shall all come for violence: their faces are set like the east wind, and they shall gather captives as the sand.
Lexham Expanded Bible
All of them come for violence, their faces pressing forward. They gather captives like the sand.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They come all to spoil: out of them cometh an east wind, which bloweth and gathereth their captives, like as the sand.
NET Bible
All of them intend to do violence; every face is determined. They take prisoners as easily as one scoops up sand.
New Heart English Bible
All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.
The Emphasized Bible
Solely for violence, will he come, the intent of their faces, is - To the east! And he hath gathered, as the sand, a captive host;
Webster
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
World English Bible
All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.
Youngs Literal Translation
Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.
Interlinear
Chamac
Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 1:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Answer To Habakkuk
8 His horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. And their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from afar. They shall fly like the eagle hurrying to eat. 9 All of him shall come for violence; the gathering of their faces is forward; and they gather captives like the sand. 10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the rulers shall be a scorn to them. They shall laugh at every stronghold, for he shall heap up dust and capture it.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 41:49
And Joseph gathered grain like the sand of the sea, very much, until he quit numbering it; for it was without number.
Deuteronomy 28:51-52
And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed. He shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or flocks of your sheep, until he has destroyed you.
Judges 7:12
And the Midianites and the Amalekites, and all the sons of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude, and their camels without number, like the sand by the seaside for multitude.
Job 29:18
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days like the sand.
Psalm 139:18
If I should count them, they are more than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You.
Isaiah 27:8
By driving her away, you will contend with her; by sending her away, You punished her. He takes away by His rough wind, in the day of the east wind.
Jeremiah 4:7
The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations has set out; he has left his place to make your land a waste. Your cities will fall into ruins without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 4:11
At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind from the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of My people, not to sift nor to cleanse.
Jeremiah 5:15-17
Lo, I will bring a nation on you from afar, O house of Israel, says Jehovah. It is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor understand what they say.
Jeremiah 15:8
Their widows are more numerous about Me than the sand of the seas; I have brought on them, against a mother of a young man, a ravager at noonday; I have caused anguish and terror to fall on her suddenly.
Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Jehovah, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and will bring them against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations all around. And I will completely destroy them, and make them a waste, and a hissing, and everlasting ruins.
Jeremiah 34:22
Behold, I will command, says Jehovah, and cause them to return to this city. And they shall fight against it and capture it, and burn it with fire. And I will make the cities of Judah a desert without a soul to live in it.
Ezekiel 17:10
And behold, being planted, shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It shall wither in the beds where it sprouted.
Ezekiel 19:12
But she was plucked up in fury; she was thrown down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit. Her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire burned them up.
Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.
Hosea 13:15
Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind shall come. The wind of Jehovah shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall be ashamed, and his fountain shall be dried up. He shall plunder the treasure of all desirable vessels.
Habakkuk 1:6
For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, the bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land to possess homes not their own.
Habakkuk 2:5-13
And also wine indeed betrays a proud man, and he is not content. He widens his soul like Sheol, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, but gathers all nations to himself, and heaps to himself all the peoples.
Romans 9:27
Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel is as the sands of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.