Habacuc 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.
Context
This verse from Habacuc Chapter 1 connects to 10 cross-references. Habacuc clama: ¿hasta cuándo clamará el profeta y tú no escucharás? La violencia y la injusticia están en todas partes. El Señor responde: levantaré a los caldeos, nación feroz e impetuosa. El profeta protesta: ¿cómo puedes mirar al malvado destruir …
Otras traducciones
They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.
Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.
They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.
Referencias cruzadas
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