Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
They collect captives like sand.
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.
Holman Bible
their faces
They gather
International Standard Version
"They all come to oppress hordes of them, their faces pressing onward they take prisoners as numerous as the desert sand!
A Conservative Version
They come all of them for violence. The set of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.
American Standard Version
They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.
Amplified
“They all come for violence;
Their horde of faces moves [eagerly] forward,
They gather prisoners like sand.
Bible in Basic English
They 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.
Darby Translation
They come all of them for violence: the crowd of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.
Julia Smith Translation
Wholly for violence shall he come: the host of their faces forwards, and he shall gather a captivity as the sand.
King James 2000
They shall all come for violence: their faces are set like the east wind, and they shall gather captives as the sand.
Lexham Expanded Bible
All of them come for violence, their faces pressing forward. They gather captives like the sand.
Modern King James verseion
All of him shall come for violence; the gathering of their faces is forward; and they gather captives like the sand.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They come all to spoil: out of them cometh an east wind, which bloweth and gathereth their captives, like as the sand.
NET Bible
All of them intend to do violence; every face is determined. They take prisoners as easily as one scoops up sand.
New Heart English Bible
All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.
The Emphasized Bible
Solely for violence, will he come, the intent of their faces, is - To the east! And he hath gathered, as the sand, a captive host;
Webster
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
World English Bible
All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.
Youngs Literal Translation
Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 1:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Answer To Habakkuk
8
And
Their
Their horsemen come from afar;
They fly like an
They collect captives like sand.
And rulers are a laughing matter to them.
They
And
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 41:49
Thus Joseph stored up grain
Deuteronomy 28:51-52
Moreover, it shall eat the
Judges 7:12
Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley
Job 29:18
And I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Psalm 139:18
When
Isaiah 27:8
With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the
Jeremiah 4:7
And a
He has gone out from his place
To
Your cities will be ruins
Without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 4:11
In that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A
Jeremiah 5:15-17
“It is an enduring nation,
It is an ancient nation,
A nation whose
Nor can you understand what they say.
Jeremiah 15:8
Than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man,
A
I will suddenly bring down on her
Anguish and dismay.
Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will
Jeremiah 34:22
Behold, I am going to command,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will bring them back to this city; and they will fight against it and
Ezekiel 17:10
Behold, though it is planted, will it thrive? Will it not
Ezekiel 19:12
It was
And the
Its
So that
The fire consumed it.
Hosea 1:10
Will be like the
Which cannot be measured or numbered;
And
Where it is said to them,
“You are
It will be said to them,
“You are the
Hosea 13:15
An
The wind of the Lord coming up from the wilderness;
And his fountain will
And his spring will be dried up;
It will
Habakkuk 1:6
That
Who march
To
Habakkuk 2:5-13
So that he does not
He
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He also gathers to himself all nations
And collects to himself all peoples.
Romans 9:27
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “