Habakkuk 1:9

Habakkuk 1:9 in other versions

• King James Version (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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)They all come for violence, all their faces forward. They gather captives like sand.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“They all come for violence; Their faces are set like the east wind. They gather captives like sand.
• New Living Translation (NLT)“On they come, all bent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind, sweeping captives ahead of them like sand.

Context of Habakkuk 1:9

7They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor. 8Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle swooping to devour; they all come intent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand. 10They mock kings and scoff at rulers. They laugh at all fortified cities; by building earthen ramps they capture them. 11Then they sweep past like the wind and go on— guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”

Habakkuk 1:9 word by word

כֻּלֹּה֙ לְחָמָ֣ס יָב֔וֹא מְגַמַּ֥ת פְּנֵיהֶ֖ם קָדִ֑ימָה וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ף כַּח֖וֹל שֶֽׁבִי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• They shall comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• all for violenceחָמָסchâmâs · violenceH2555
• their facesפָּנֶהpânîym · faceH6440
• shall sup upמְגַמָּהmegammâh · hordeH4041
• the east windקָדִיםqâdîym qâdim · eastH6921
• and they shall gatherאָסַף'âsaph · to gatherH622
• the captivityשְׁבִיshebîy · captivityH7628
• as the sandחוֹלchôl · sandH2344

Cross-references for Habakkuk 1:9

• Habakkuk 1:6I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own.
• Habakkuk 2:5indeed, wine betrays him; he is arrogant and never at rest. Because he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied, he gathers to himself all the nations and takes captive all the peoples.
• Deuteronomy 28:51They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.
• Jeremiah 4:7A lion has come out of his lair; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place to lay waste your land. Your towns will lie in ruins without inhabitant.
• Jeremiah 5:15People of Israel,” declares the Lord, “I am bringing a distant nation against you— an ancient and enduring nation, a people whose language you do not know, whose speech you do not understand.
• Jeremiah 25:9I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin.
• Isaiah 27:8By warfare and exile you contend with her— with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.
• Jeremiah 4:11At that time this people and Jerusalem will be told, “A scorching wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward my people, but not to winnow or cleanse;
• Ezekiel 17:10It has been planted, but will it thrive? Will it not wither completely when the east wind strikes it—wither away in the plot where it grew?’ ”
• Ezekiel 19:12But it was uprooted in fury and thrown to the ground. The east wind made it shrivel, it was stripped of its fruit; its strong branches withered and fire consumed them.
• Hosea 13:15even though he thrives among his brothers. An east wind from the Lord will come, blowing in from the desert; his spring will fail and his well dry up. His storehouse will be plundered of all its treasures.
• Genesis 41:49Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.
• Judges 7:12The Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore.
• Job 29:18“I thought, ‘I will die in my own house, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.
• Psalms 139:18Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.
• Jeremiah 15:8I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At midday I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men; suddenly I will bring down on them anguish and terror.

Commentaries on Habakkuk 1:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Their faces shall sup up as the east wind - This may be an allusion to those electrical winds which prevail in that country. Mr. Jackson, in his overland journey from India, mentions his having bathed in the Tigris. On his coming out of the river one of those winds passed over him, and, in a moment, carried off every particle of water that was on his body and in his bathing dress. So, the Chaldeans shall leave no substance behind them; their faces, their…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9They shall come all for violence - “Violence” had been the sin of Judah Habakkuk 1:3-4, and now violence shall be her punishment. It had been ever before the prophet; all were full of it. Now should violence be the very end, one by one, of all the savage horde poured out upon them; they all, each one of them come for violence. Their faces shall sup up as the east wind - קדומה occurs else only in Ezekiel 11:1, and Ezekiel 11:16 times in Ezekiel 4048 of the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9The Babylonians took many people from Judah into exile between 605 and 586 BC (see Daniel 1:1–3).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. all for violence--The sole object of all is not to establish just rights, but to get all they can by violence. their faces shall sup up as the east wind--that is, they shall, as it were, swallow up all before them; so the horse in Job 39:24 is said to "swallow the ground with fierceness and rage." Maurer takes it from an Arabic root, "the desire of their faces," that is, the eager desire expressed by their faces. Henderson, with Symmachus and Syriac…Read the comment

Topics related to Habakkuk 1:9

• Babylon
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Prophecy

In the dictionaries

• East wind
• Possess
• Pure
• Scoff
• Wrong
• Habakkuk

Commentaries on Habakkuk 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings