Habakkuk 1:9
All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
Note their…: or, the supping up of their faces, etc: or, their faces shall look (Heb. the opposition of their faces) toward the east
All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.
They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- for
- Habakkuk 1:6; Habakkuk 2:5–13; Deuteronomy 28:51, 52; Jeremiah 4:7; Jeremiah 5:15–17; Jeremiah 25:9
- their faces shall sup up as the east
- or, the supping up oftheir faces, as, etc. or, their faces shall look toward the east. Heb. the opposition of their faces shall be toward the east.
- Isaiah 27:8; Jeremiah 4:11; Ezekiel 17:10; Ezekiel 19:12; Hosea 13:15
- they shall gather
- Habakkuk 2:5; Genesis 41:49; Judges 7:12; Job 29:18; Psalm 139:18; Jeremiah 15:8; Jeremiah 34:22; Hosea 1:10; Romans 9:27