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Habakkuk 1:9

They all come pfor violence,

all their faces forward.

They gather captives rlike sand.

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Habakkuk 1:9 — The New International Version (NIV)

they all come intent on violence.

Their hordes advance like a desert wind

and gather prisoners like sand.

Habakkuk 1:9 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

They shall come all for violence:

Their faces shall sup up as the east wind,

And they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

Habakkuk 1:9 — 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.

Habakkuk 1:9 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

“They all come for violence;

Their faces are set like the east wind.

They gather captives like sand.

Habakkuk 1:9 — New Century Version (NCV)

They all come to fight.

Nothing can stop them.

Their prisoners are as many as the grains of sand.

Habakkuk 1:9 — American Standard Version (ASV)

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

Habakkuk 1:9 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

They come all of them for violence: the crowd of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.

Habakkuk 1:9 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

They will all come for violence. 

Every face will be directed forward. 

They will gather prisoners like sand. 

Habakkuk 1:9 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

All of them come to do violence;

their faces are set in determination.

They gather prisoners like sand.

Habakkuk 1:9 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

They all come for violence,

with faces pressing forward;

they gather captives like sand.

Habakkuk 1:9 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

All of them come for violence,

their faces pressing forward.

They gather captives like the sand.

Habakkuk 1:9 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

All of them are ready to destroy others.

Their huge armies advance like a wind out of the desert.

They gather prisoners like sand.

Habakkuk 1:9 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

All of them come for violence.

Their horde of faces moves forward.

They collect captives like sand.


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