Habakkuk 1:9
What does Habakkuk 1:9 mean?
A plain-English look at Habakkuk 1:9 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949They 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752They shall all come to the prey, their face is like a burning wind: and they shall gather together captives as the sand.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890They come all of them for violence: the crowd of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.
Context
v.8Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen press proudly on: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.
v.9This passage
v.10Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a derision unto him; he derideth every stronghold; for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 34:22
Behold, I will command, saith Jehovah, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
- Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
- Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
- Jeremiah 15:8
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.
- Jeremiah 4:11
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;
- Deuteronomy 28:51
and shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; that also shall not leave thee grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flock, until they have caused thee to perish.
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