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Habakkuk 1:9

All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כֻּלֹּה֙ku.Lohall of itH3605 →
לְחָמָ֣סle.cha.Masfor violenceH2555 →
יָב֔וֹאya.Vo'it comesH935 →
מְגַמַּ֥תme.ga.Mat[the] totality ofH4041 →
פְּנֵיהֶ֖םpe.nei.Hemfaces theirH6440 →
קָדִ֑ימָהka.Di.mah[is] east -wardH6921 →
וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ףvai.ye.'e.Sofand it gatheredH622 →
כַּח֖וֹלka.Chollike <the> sandH2344 →
שֶֽׁבִי׃She.vicaptive[s]H7628 →

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Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.Jeremiah 34:22Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”Jeremiah 5:15–17Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.Jeremiah 15:8I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.Jeremiah 4:11At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;Isaiah 27:8By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.Ezekiel 17:10Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.’”Genesis 41:49So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.Psalms 139:18If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.Judges 7:12Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.Hosea 13:15Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.Habakkuk 1:6For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.Ezekiel 19:12But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.Job 29:18So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.Hosea 1:10Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’Habakkuk 2:5–13and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.Deuteronomy 28:51–52They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.Jeremiah 4:7A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.

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