they all come intent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and 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、

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 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 this people and Jerusalem will be told,“ A scorching wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward my people, but not to winnow or cleanse;

“ I thought,‘ I will die in my own house, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.

I am going to give the order, declares the Lord, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, take it and burn it down. And I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there.”

They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.

indeed, wine betrays him; he is arrogant and never at rest. Because he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied, he gathers to himself all the nations and takes captive all the peoples.“ Will not all of them taunt him with ridicule and scorn, saying,“‘ Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion! How long must this go on?’Will not your creditors suddenly arise? Will they not wake up and make you tremble? Then you will become their prey.Because you have plundered many nations, the peoples who are left will plunder you. For you have shed human blood; you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.“ Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, setting his nest on high to escape the clutches of ruin!You have plotted the ruin of many peoples, shaming your own house and forfeiting your life.The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.“ Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice!Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?

By warfare and exile you contend with her— with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.

I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the Lord,“ and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin.

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:“ Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

People of Israel,” declares the Lord,“ I am bringing a distant nation against you— an ancient and enduring nation, a people whose language you do not know, whose speech you do not understand.Their quivers are like an open grave; all of them are mighty warriors.They will devour your harvests and food, devour your sons and daughters; they will devour your flocks and herds, devour your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.

It has been planted, but will it thrive? Will it not wither completely when the east wind strikes it— wither away in the plot where it grew?’”

Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.

But it was uprooted in fury and thrown to the ground. The east wind made it shrivel, it was stripped of its fruit; its strong branches withered and fire consumed them.

Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.

“ Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them,‘ You are not my people,’ they will be called‘ children of the living God.’

I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At midday I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men; suddenly I will bring down on them anguish and terror.

The Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore.

even though he thrives among his brothers. An east wind from the Lord will come, blowing in from the desert; his spring will fail and his well dry up. His storehouse will be plundered of all its treasures.

A lion has come out of his lair; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place to lay waste your land. Your towns will lie in ruins without inhabitant.

I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own.