“ They all come for violence; Their faces are set like the east wind. They gather captives 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 to do violence; their faces are set in determination. They gather prisoners like sand.

All of them come for violence. Their horde of faces moves forward. 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 dry wind of the desolate heights blows in the wilderness Toward the daughter of My people— Not to fan or to cleanse—

“ Then I said,‘ I shall die in my nest, And multiply my days as the sand.

Behold, I will command,’ says the Lord,‘ and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.’”

And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.“ They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

“ Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, He is a proud man, And he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his desire as hell, And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied, He gathers to himself all nations And heaps up for himself all peoples.“ Will not all these take up a proverb against him, And a taunting riddle against him, and say,‘ Woe to him who increases What is not his— how long? And to him who loads himself with many pledges’?Will not your creditors rise up suddenly? Will they not awaken who oppress you? And you will become their booty.Because you have plundered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plunder you, Because of men’s blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it.“ Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house, That he may set his nest on high, That he may be delivered from the power of disaster!You give shameful counsel to your house, Cutting off many peoples, And sin against your soul.For the stone will cry out from the wall, And the beam from the timbers will answer it.“ Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, Who establishes a city by iniquity!Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts That the peoples labor to feed the fire, And nations weary themselves in vain?

In measure, by sending it away, You contended with it. He removes it by His rough wind In the day of the east wind.

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ says the Lord,‘ and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel:“ Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, The remnant will be saved.

Behold, I will bring a nation against you from afar, O house of Israel,” says the Lord.“ It is a mighty nation, It is an ancient nation, A nation whose language you do not know, Nor can you understand what they say.Their quiver is like an open tomb; They are all mighty men.And they shall eat up your harvest and your bread, Which your sons and daughters should eat. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds; They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; They shall destroy your fortified cities, In which you trust, with the sword.

Behold, it is planted, Will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the garden terrace where it grew.”’”

If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.

But she was plucked up in fury, She was cast down to the ground, And the east wind dried her fruit. Her strong branches were broken and withered; The fire consumed them.

Joseph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he stopped counting, for it was immeasurable.

“ Yet the number of the children of Israel Shall be as the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numbered. And it shall come to pass In the place where it was said to them,‘ You are not My people,’ There it shall be said to them,‘ You are sons of the living God.’

Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, Against the mother of the young men, A plunderer at noonday; I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them suddenly.

Now the Midianites and Amalekites, all the people of the East, were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seashore in multitude.

Though he is fruitful among his brethren, An east wind shall come; The wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness. Then his spring shall become dry, And his fountain shall be dried up. He shall plunder the treasury of every desirable prize.

The lion has come up from his thicket, And the destroyer of nations is on his way. He has gone forth from his place To make your land desolate. Your cities will be laid waste, Without inhabitant.

For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, A bitter and hasty nation Which marches through the breadth of the earth, To possess dwelling places that are not theirs.