Habakkuk 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 

Ge 41:49; De 28:51,52; Jud 7:12; Job 29:18; Ps 139:18; Isa 27:8; Jer 4:7; Jer 4:11; Jer 5:15-17; Jer 15:8; Jer 25:9; Jer 34:22; Eze 17:10; Eze 19:12; Ho 1:10; Ho 13:15; Hab 1:6; Hab 2:5-13; Hab 2:5; Ro 9:27

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.”