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Habakkuk 1:9

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1:9 All of them intend 1  to do violence;

every face is determined. 2 

They take prisoners as easily as one scoops up sand. 3 

1 tn Heb “come.”

2 tn Heb “The totality of their faces is to the east” (or “is forward”). The precise meaning of the Hebrew term מְגַמַּת (megammat) is unclear. For a discussion of options see J. J. M. Roberts, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah (OTL), 93. NEB has “a sea of faces rolls on”; NIV “their hordes advance like a desert wind”; NRSV “with faces pressing forward.”

3 tn Heb “and he gathers like sand, prisoners.”



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