SinaiHabakkuk 1:9
American Standard Version
They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.
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Habakkuk 1:9 in other translations
All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.
Habakkuk 1:9 in context
- 7They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
- 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.
- 9They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.
- 10Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a derision unto him; he derideth every stronghold; for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it.
- 11Then shall he sweep by as a wind, and shall pass over, and be guilty, even he whose might is his god.