9All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.


In Context

6 For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

7 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.

8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

9 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

11 Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god.|

Habakkuk 1:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:9They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up [as] the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:9they all come bent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:9They shall all come to the prey, their face is like a burning wind: and they shall gather together captives as the sand.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:9They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:9They come all of them for violence: the crowd of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:9They come all of them for violence; their faces are set eagerly as the east wind; and they gather captives as the sand.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:9They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:9Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:9They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.