They all come (A)for violence,
    all their faces forward.
    They gather captives (B)like sand.

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27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: (A)“Though the number of the sons of Israel[a] be as the sand of the sea, (B)only a remnant of them will be saved,

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:27 Or children of Israel

“Moreover, wine[a] is (A)a traitor,
    an arrogant man who is never at rest.[b]
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
    like death (B)he has never enough.
(C)He gathers for himself all nations
    and collects as his own all peoples.”

Woe to the Chaldeans

Shall not all these (D)take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,

(E)“Woe to him (F)who heaps up what is not his own—
    for (G)how long?—
    and (H)loads himself with pledges!”
(I)Will not your debtors suddenly arise,
    and those awake who will make you tremble?
    Then you will be spoil for them.
(J)Because you have plundered many nations,
    all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,
(K)for the blood of man and (L)violence to the earth,
    to cities and all who dwell in them.

(M)“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
    (N)to (O)set his nest on high,
    to be safe from the reach of harm!
10 You have devised shame for your house
    (P)by cutting off many peoples;
    you have forfeited your life.
11 For (Q)the stone will cry out from the wall,
    and the beam from the woodwork respond.

12 (R)“Woe to him (S)who builds a town with blood
    and founds a city on iniquity!
13 Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts
    that (T)peoples labor merely for fire,
    and nations weary themselves for nothing?

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:5 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll wealth
  2. Habakkuk 2:5 The meaning of the Hebrew of these two lines is uncertain

For behold, (A)I am raising up the Chaldeans,
    that bitter and hasty nation,
(B)who march through the breadth of the earth,
    (C)to seize dwellings not their own.

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15 Though (A)he may flourish among his brothers,
    (B)the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come,
    rising from the wilderness,
(C)and his fountain shall dry up;
    his spring shall be parched;
it shall strip (D)his treasury
    of every precious thing.

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10 [a] Yet (A)the number of the children of Israel shall be (B)like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. (C)And (D)in the place where it was said to them, (E)“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, (F)“Children[b] of (G)the living God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:10 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
  2. Hosea 1:10 Or Sons

12 But the vine was plucked up in fury,
    cast down to the ground;
(A)the east wind dried up its fruit;
    they were stripped off and withered.
As for its strong stem,
    fire consumed it.

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10 Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? (A)Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it sprouted?”

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22 Behold, (A)I will command, declares the Lord, and will (B)bring them back to this city. (C)And they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire. (D)I will make the cities of Judah a desolation (E)without inhabitant.”

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(A)behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (B)my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, (C)and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

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I have made their widows more in number
    than (A)the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of young men
    a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
    fall upon them suddenly.

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15 (A)Behold, I am bringing against you
    a nation from afar, O house of Israel,
declares the Lord.
It is an enduring nation;
    it is an ancient nation,
a nation whose language you do not know,
    (B)nor can you understand what they say.
16 (C)Their quiver is like (D)an open tomb;
    they are all mighty warriors.
17 (E)They shall eat up your harvest and your food;
    they shall eat up your sons and your daughters;
they shall eat up your flocks and your herds;
    they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees;
your (F)fortified cities in which you trust
    they shall beat down with the sword.”

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11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from (A)the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,

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(A)A lion has gone up from his thicket,
    a destroyer of nations has set out;
    he has gone out from his place
to make your land a waste;
    your cities will be ruins
    (B)without inhabitant.

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(A)Measure by measure,[a] by exile you contended with them;
    (B)he removed them with his fierce breath[b] in the day of the east wind.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:8 Or By driving her away; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  2. Isaiah 27:8 Or wind

18 (A)If I would count them, they are more than (B)the sand.
    I awake, and I am still with you.

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18 (A)Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my (B)nest,
    and I shall multiply my days as (C)the sand,

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12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and (A)all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, (B)as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.

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51 It shall (A)eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

52 “They shall (B)besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you.

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49 And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, (A)like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

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