Text -- Habakkuk 1:9 (NET)

1:9 All of them intend to do violence; every face is determined. They take prisoners as easily as one scoops up sand.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Hab 1:9

¹ tn Heb “come.”

² tn Heb “The totality of their faces is to the east” (or “is forward”). The precise meaning of the Hebrew term מְגַמַּת (megammat) is unclear. For a discussion of options see J. J. M. Roberts, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah (OTL), 93. NEB has “a sea of faces rolls on”; NIV “their hordes advance like a desert wind”; NRSV “with faces pressing forward.”

³ tn Heb “and he gathers like sand, prisoners.”