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Habakkuk 1:9

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9They shall come all for violence:

||†Their faces shall sup up as the east wind,

And they shall gather athe captivity bas the sand.

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Footnotes

  1. ||Or, The supping up of their faces, &c. Or, their faces shall look z toward the east.
  2. †Heb. the opposition of their faces
  3. aIsai. 20:4. Rev. 13:10 (Gk.).
  4. bSee Josh. 11:4.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

They all come for violence,

all their faces forward.

They gather captives like sand.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

they all come intent on violence.

Their hordes advance like a desert wind

and gather prisoners like sand.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

All of them come to do violence;

their faces are set in determination.

They gather prisoners like sand.

NLTNew Living Translation

“On they come, all bent on violence.

Their hordes advance like a desert wind,

sweeping captives ahead of them like sand.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

All of them come for violence,

their faces pressing forward.

They gather captives like the sand.