Habakkuk 1:9

They all will come for violence: the front of their faces is like the east wind, and they gather captives as the sand.

Leeser Tanakh

In The 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.

In Context

8And swifter than leopards are their horses, and fiercer than the evening wolves; and their horsemen spread themselves abroad: and their horsemen will come from afar; they will fly like the eagle hastening to eat.

10And they will make sport with kings, and princes will be a play unto them: at every strong-hold will they laugh, and they will cast up earth-mounds and capture it.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:51And it will eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy soil, until thou be destroyed; so that it will not leave unto thee corn, wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flocks, until it have ruined thee.

Job 29:18And I said then, “In the midst of my nest shall I depart hence, and like the sand shall I have many days.

Isaiah 27:8In measure, by driving him forth, thou strivest with him: he removed him with his violent storm on the day of the east wind.

Jeremiah 4:11At that time shall be announced to this people and to Jerusalem a dry wind from the mountain-peaks in the wilderness, [coming] on the road to the daughter of my people; not to winnow, nor to cleanse [the corn],

Jeremiah 15:8Their widows are more numerous before me than the sand of the seas: I bring unto them, over the mothers of the young men, a waster at noonday; I cause to fall upon her suddenly the enemy with [his] terrors.

Jeremiah 34:22Behold, I will command, speaketh the Lord, and I will bring them back to this city; and they shall fight against it, and capture it, and burn it with fire: and the cities of Judah will I make a desert without an inhabitant.

Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 1:6-12

Judgment Predicted. ( b. c. 600.) 5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. 6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places that are not theirs. 7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. 8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more… Read the whole commentary →

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