All of them intend ¹  to do violence; every face is determined. ²  They take prisoners as easily as one scoops up sand. ³ 

biblegateway Hab 1:9

"All of them come for violence. Their horde of faces moves forward. They collect captives like sand.

All of them come to do violence; their faces are set in determination. They gather prisoners like sand.

They will all come for violence. Every face will be directed forward. They will gather prisoners like sand.

biblegateway Hab 1:9

they all come bent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand.

They all come for violence, all their faces forward. They gather captives like sand.

bibleoremus Hab 1:9

They all come for violence, with faces pressing forward; they gather captives like sand.

Bent on violence, their whole army advances, a horde moving onward like an east wind; they round up captives countless as the sand.

biblegateway Hab 1:9

"They all come for violence; Their faces are set like the east wind. They gather captives like sand.

They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up [as] the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

biblegateway Hab 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.”