They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThey come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.
All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.
Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.
They come all of them for violence: the crowd of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentHabakkuk — A prophet in dialogue with God — two complaints, two answers, a psalm. ‘The just shall live by his faith’ — cited three times in the NT.
- Author
- Habakkuk the prophet (1:1)
- Date
- Late 7th c. BC, shortly before the Babylonian rise to dominance