Parallel Verses
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.
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 King James verseion
All of him shall come for violence; the gathering of their faces is forward; and they gather captives like 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 Their horses are swifter than the cats of the mountain, and bite sorer than the wolves in the evening. Their horsemen come by great heaps from far, they flee hastily to devour as the Eagle. 9 They come all to spoil: out of them cometh an east wind, which bloweth and gathereth their captives, like as the sand. 10 They shall mock the kings, and laugh the princes to scorn. They shall not set by any strong hold, for they shall lay ordinance against it, and take it.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 41:49
And Joseph laid up corn in store, like unto the sand of the sea in multitude out of measure, until he left numbering: For it was without number.
Deuteronomy 28:51-52
And he shall eat the fruit of thy land and the fruit of thy cattle until he have destroyed thee: so that he shall leave thee neither corn, wine, nor oil, neither the increase of thine oxen nor the flocks of thy sheep: until he have brought thee to nought.
Judges 7:12
And the Midianites, the Amalekites, and all they of the east, lay along in the valley, like unto grasshoppers in multitude, and their camels were without number, even as the sand by the seaside in multitude.
Job 29:18
"Therefore, I thought verily that I should have died in my nest: and that my days should have been as many as the sands of the sea.
Psalm 139:18
If I tell them, they are more in number than the sand; when I wake up, I am present with thee.
Isaiah 27:8
Every man recompenseth with the measure that he receiveth: He museth upon his sore wind, as upon the days of extreme heat.
Jeremiah 4:7
For the spoiler of the Gentiles is broken up from his place, as a lion out of his den, that he may make the land waste, and destroy the cities, so that no man may dwell therein.
Jeremiah 4:11
Then shall it be said to the people and to Jerusalem, "A strong wind in the high places of the wilderness cometh through the way of my people; but neither to fan nor to cleanse.
Jeremiah 5:15-17
Lo, I will bring a people upon you from far, O house of Israel, sayeth the LORD; a mighty people, an old people, a people whose speech thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
Jeremiah 15:8
I will make their widows more in number than the sands of the sea. Upon the mothers of their children, I shall bring a destroyer in the noonday. Suddenly and unawares, shall I send a fear upon their cities.
Jeremiah 25:9
Lo, I will send out, and call for all the people that dwell in the North, sayeth the LORD, and will prepare Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant, and will bring them upon this land, and upon all that dwell therein, and upon all the people that are about them, and will utterly root them out. I will make of them a wilderness, a mockage, and a continual desert.
Jeremiah 34:22
But through my commandment, sayeth the LORD, they shall come again before this city, they shall fight against it, win it, and burn it. Moreover I will lay the cities of Judah so waste, that no man shall dwell therein."
Ezekiel 17:10
Behold, it was planted: shall it prosper therefore? Shall it not be dried up and withered, yea even in the shooting out of his blossoms, as soon as the east wind bloweth?'"
Ezekiel 19:12
she was rooted out in displeasure, and cast down to the ground. The East wind dried up her fruit; her strong stalks were broken off, withered, and burnt in the fire.
Hosea 1:10
And though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, which can neither be measured nor told: yet in the place where it is said unto them, 'Ye be not my people': even there shall it be thus reported of them, 'They be the children of the living God.'
Hosea 13:15
Yet can I see no comfort, for when he is now the goodliest among the brethren, the East wind, even the wind of the LORD, shall come down from the wilderness, and dry up his conduits, and drink up his wells: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
Habakkuk 1:6
For lo, I will raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and swift people: which shall go as wide as the land is, to take possession of dwelling places that be not their own.
Habakkuk 2:5-13
Like as the wine deceiveth the drunkard, even so the proud shall fail and not endure. He openeth his desire wide up as the hell, and is as insatiable as death. All Heathen gathereth he to him, and heapeth unto him all people."
Romans 9:27
But Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet shall a remnant be saved.