Habakkuk 1:9
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 in the real world
In what words
- מְגַמָּהmᵉgammâhproperly, accumulation, i.e. impulse or direction
- שְׁבִיshᵉbîyexiled; captured; as noun, exile (abstractly or concretely and collectively); by extension
- חָמָסchâmâçviolence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain
- קָדִיםqâdîymthe fore or front part; hence (by orientation) the East (often adverbially, eastward, for
- אָסַףʼâçaphto gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behin
- פָּנִיםpânîymthe face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and
- בּוֹאbôwʼto go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
Cross-references
Jer 25:9, Isa 27:8, Jer 4:11, Psa 139:18, Hab 2:5–13, Hos 13:15, Ezk 17:10, Hab 1:6