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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
come	יָב֔וֹא ya.Vo'	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
violence	לְחָמָ֣ס le.cha.Mas	H2555	violence · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
faces	פְּנֵיהֶ֖ם pe.nei.Hem	H6440	the face (as the part that turns) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
up	מְגַמַּ֥ת me.ga.Mat	H4041	properly · noun, common feminine singular construct
wind	קָדִ֑ימָה ka.Di.mah	H6921	the fore or front part · noun, common masculine singular construct + directional suffix
gather	וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ף vai.ye.'e.Sof	H622	to gather for any purpose · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
captivity	שֶֽׁבִי She.vi	H7628	exiled · noun, common masculine singular absolute
sand	כַּח֖וֹל ka.Chol	H2344	sand (as round or whirling particles) · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Jeremiah 25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bri…
Genesis 41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
Deuteronomy 28:51-52 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, w…
Judges 7:12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their ca…
Job 29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Psalms 139:18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Isaiah 27:8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
Jeremiah 4:7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land deso…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 1:5-11

We have here an answer to the prophet's complaint, giving him assurance that, though God bore long, he would not bear always with this provoking people; for the day of vengeance was in his heart, and he must tell them so, that they might by repentance and reformation turn away the judgment they were threatened with. I. The preamble to the sentence is very awful (Hab 1:5): Behold, you among the heathen, and regard. Since they will not be brought to repentance by the long-suffering of God, he will take another course with them. No resentments are so keen, so deep, as those of abused patience. The Lord will inflict upon them, 1. A public punishment, which shall be beheld and regarded among the…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Habakkuk 1:9

all for violence--The sole object of all is not to establish just rights, but to get all they can by violence. their faces shall sup up as the east wind--that is, they shall, as it were, swallow up all before them; so the horse in Job 39:24 is said to "swallow the ground with fierceness and rage." MAURER takes it from an Arabic root, "the desire of their faces," that is, the eager desire expressed by their faces. HENDERSON, with SYMMACHUS and Syriac, translates, "the aspect." as the east wind--the simoon, which spreads devastation wherever it passes (Isa 27:8). GESENIUS translates, "(is) forwards." The rendering proposed, eastward, as if it referred to the Chaldeans' return home eastward…

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Adam Clarke on Habakkuk 1:9

Their faces shall sup up as the east wind - This may be an allusion to those electrical winds which prevail in that country. Mr. Jackson, in his overland journey from India, mentions his having bathed in the Tigris. On his coming out of the river one of those winds passed over him, and, in a moment, carried off every particle of water that was on his body and in his bathing dress. So, the Chaldeans shall leave no substance behind them; their faces, their bare appearance, is the proof that nothing good shall be left. Shall gather the captivity as the sand - They shall carry off innumerable captives.

Dictionary and topics

Babylon · .Prophecies concerning — .Prophecies concerning
Heathen, The · Employed to chastise the Church — Employed to chastise the Church

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Habakkuk 1:9

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 1:5-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Habakkuk 1:9

Adam Clarke on Habakkuk 1:9

Dictionary and topics

Habakkuk 1:9

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 1:5-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Habakkuk 1:9

Adam Clarke on Habakkuk 1:9

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Habakkuk 1:9

John Calvin on Habakkuk 1:9

Keil & Delitzsch on Habakkuk 1:6-11

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Habakkuk 1:9

Rashi on Habakkuk 1:9