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

都为行强暴而来，定住脸面向前，将掳掠的人聚集，多如尘沙。

都为施行残暴而来，他们的脸面向东，聚集俘虏，多如尘沙。

都为施行残暴而来，他们的脸面向东，聚集俘虏，多如尘沙。

他们残暴成性，像狂风一样扑来，抓获的俘虏多如尘沙。

他们定着脸面向前，齐来行暴，掳获战俘多如尘沙。

都為行強暴而來，定住臉面向前，將擄掠的人聚集，多如塵沙。

都為施行殘暴而來，他們的臉面向東，聚集俘虜，多如塵沙。

都為施行殘暴而來，他們的臉面向東，聚集俘虜，多如塵沙。

他們殘暴成性，像狂風一樣撲來，抓獲的俘虜多如塵沙。

他們定著臉面向前，齊來行暴，擄獲戰俘多如塵沙。

他們都為了行強暴而來；未到之先、人就懼怕他們。他們聚集被擄的人、多如塵沙。

彼之來也、為行強暴、奮勇直前、聚厥俘虜、如沙之多、

其色甚厲、若東風驟起、既至斯土、強據人民、所獲俘囚、有若海沙、

彼眾咸來、以行強暴、長驅大進、勢若東風、擄掠人民、多若塵沙、

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

All of them are ready and willing to destroy others. Their huge armies advance like a wind out of the desert. They gather prisoners like sand.

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

“ On they come, all bent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind, sweeping captives ahead of them like sand.

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

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

They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.

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

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

All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

“ At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem,‘ A searing wind blows from the barren heights in the wilderness on the way to my dear people. It comes not to winnow or to sift;

So I thought,“ I will die in my own nest and multiply my days as the sand.

I am about to give the command— this is the LORD’s declaration— and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it. I will make Judah’s cities a desolation, without inhabitant.”

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, fresh oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.They will besiege you within all your city gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your city gates throughout the land the LORD your God has given you.

Moreover, wine betrays; an arrogant man is never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself; he collects all the peoples for himself.Won’t all of these take up a taunt against him, with mockery and riddles about him? They will say,“ Woe to him who amasses what is not his— how much longer?— and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.”Won’t your creditors suddenly arise, and those who disturb you wake up? Then you will become spoil for them.Since you have plundered many nations, all the peoples who remain will plunder you— because of human bloodshed and violence against lands, cities, and all who live in them.Woe to him who dishonestly makes wealth for his house to place his nest on high, to escape the grasp of disaster!You have planned shame for your house by wiping out many peoples and sinning against your own self.For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will answer them from the woodwork.Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and founds a town with injustice!Is it not from the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?

You disputed with Israel by banishing and driving her away. He removed her with his severe storm on the day of the east wind.

I am going to send for all the families of the north’— this is the LORD’s declaration—‘ and send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror and scorn, and ruins forever.

But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, Though the number of Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved;

I am about to bring a nation from far away against you, house of Israel. This is the LORD’s declaration. It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.Their quiver is like an open grave; they are all warriors.They will consume your harvest and your food. They will consume your sons and your daughters. They will consume your flocks and your herds. They will consume your vines and your fig trees. With the sword they will destroy your fortified cities in which you trust.

Even though it is planted, will it flourish? Won’t it wither completely when the east wind strikes it? It will wither on the plot where it sprouted.’”

If I counted them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; when I wake up, I am still with you.

But it was uprooted in fury, thrown to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were torn off and dried up; fire consumed them.

So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance— like the sand of the sea— that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.

Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And in the place where they were told: You are not my people, they will be called: Sons of the living God.

I made their widows more numerous than the sand of the seas. I brought a destroyer at noon against the mother of young men. I suddenly released on her agitation and terrors.

Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the people of the east had settled down in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come, a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His water source will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder the treasury of every precious item.

A lion has gone up from his thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to make your land a waste. Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.

Look! I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter, impetuous nation that marches across the earth’s open spaces to seize territories not its own.