MANNAFEST

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

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ASV

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

WEB

All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.

YLT

Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.

DBT

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

HabakkukA 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

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