Habakkuk 1:9
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.

Young's Literal Translation
Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.

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

Hebrew
All
כֻּלֹּה֙ (kul·lōh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

of them come
יָב֔וֹא (yā·ḇō·w)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

bent
מְגַמַּ֥ת (mə·ḡam·maṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 4041: Accumulation, impulse, direction

on violence;
לְחָמָ֣ס (lə·ḥā·mās)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2555: Violence, wrong, by meton, unjust gain

their hordes
פְּנֵיהֶ֖ם (pə·nê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6440: The face

[advance like] the east [wind];
קָדִ֑ימָה (qā·ḏî·māh)
Noun - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 6921: The fore, front part, the East

they gather
וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ף (way·ye·’ĕ·sōp̄)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 622: To gather for, any purpose, to receive, take away, remove

prisoners
שֶֽׁבִי׃ (še·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7628: Exiled, captured, exile, booty

like sand.
כַּח֖וֹל (ka·ḥō·wl)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2344: Sand

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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