Habacuc 1:9

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

Eles todos viro com violncia; o seu rosto buscar o oriente, e eles congregaro os cativos como areia.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Eles todos viro para fazer violncia; os seus rostos buscaro o vento oriental, e reuniro os cativos como areia.

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Eles todos vm para fazer violncia; o seu rosto suspira por seguir avante; eles renem os cativos como areia.

Bible Verse Review
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for: Habakkuk 1:6, Habakkuk 2:5-13, Deuteronomy 28:51, Deuteronomy 28:52, Jeremiah 4:7, Jeremiah 5:15-17, Jeremiah 25:9

their faces shall sup up as the east: or, the supping up of their faces, as, etc. or, their faces shall look toward the east. Heb. the opposition of their faces shall be toward the east. Isaiah 27:8, Jeremiah 4:11, Ezekiel 17:10, Ezekiel 19:12, Hosea 13:15

they shall gather: Habakkuk 2:5, Genesis 41:49, Judges 7:12, Job 29:18, Psalms 139:18, Jeremiah 15:8, Jeremiah 34:22, Hosea 1:10, Romans 9:27

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 4:29 - as the sand Job 39:24 - He swalloweth Ezekiel 1:4 - a whirlwind Obadiah 1:16 - swallow down Habakkuk 1:17 - and Habakkuk 2:6 - that increaseth Hebrews 11:12 - as the sand

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They shall come all for violence,.... Or, "the whole of it" s; the whole army of the Chaldeans, everyone of them; this would be their sole view, not to do themselves justice, as might be pretended, or avenge any injuries or affronts done to them by the Jews; but purely for the sake of spoil and plunder:

their faces shall sup up [as] the east wind: their countenances will appear so stern and fierce, that their very looks will so frighten, as to cause men to sink and die through terror; just as herbs and plants shrivel up and wither away, when blasted by a nipping east wind. So the Targum,

"the reception or look of their faces is like to a vehement east wind.''

Some render it,

"the look or design of their faces is to the east t;''

when the Chaldeans were on their march to Judea, their faces were to the west or south west; but then their desire and views were, that when they had got the spoil they came for, as in the preceding clause, to carry it to Babylon, which lay eastward or north east of Judea, and thither their faces looked:

and they shall gather the captivity as the sand; or gather up persons, both in Judea, and in other countries conquered by them, as innumerable as the sand of the sea, and carry them captive into their own land. Captivity is put for captives.

s כלה "illa teta", Junius Tremellius "sub. gens", Pagninus, Piscator; "totus exercitus", Vatablus; "populus", Calvin. t קדימה "ad orientem", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius; "orientem versus", Junius Tremellius, De Dieu, Burkius so Abarbinel.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They shall come all for violence - “Violence” had been the sin of Judah Habakkuk 1:3-4, and now violence shall be her punishment. It had been ever before the prophet; all were full of it. Now should violence be the very end, one by one, of all the savage horde poured out upon them; they all, each one of them come for violence.

Their faces shall sup up as the east wind - קדומה occurs else only in Ezekiel 11:1, and Ezekiel 11:16 times in Ezek. 40–48 of the ideal city and temple as “Eastwards.” But except in the far-fetched explanation of Abarb (mentioned also by Tanchum) that they ravaged, not to settle but to return home with their booty, “Eastwards” would have no meaning. Yet “forwards” is just as insulated a rendering as that adopted by John and D. Kimchi, A. E. Rashi, Oh. Sip., Sal. B. Mel. Arab Tr. (following Jonathan) “the East-wind; קדומה standing as a metaphor instead of a simile the הbeing regarded as paragogic, as in לילה. So also Symmachus ἄνεμος καύσων anemos kausōn. Jerome: “ventus urens.”) “As at the breath of the burning wind all green things dry up, so at sight of these all shall be wasted.” They shall sweep over everything impetuously, like the east wind, scorching, blackening, blasting, swallowing up all, as they pass over, as the East wind, especially in the Holy Land, sucks up all moisture and freshness.

And they shall gather the captivity - i. e., the captives

As the sand - countless, as the particles which the East wind raises, sweeping over the sand-wastes, where it buries whole caravans in one death.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 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.