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1:9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up [as] the {f} east wind, and they shall gather the captives {g} as the sand.
(f) For the Jews most feared this wind, because it destroyed their fruits.
(g) They will be so many in number.
1:9 For violence - To enrich themselves by making a prey of all. Their faces - Their very countenances shall be as blasting as the east - wind.
1:1-11 The servants of the Lord are deeply afflicted by seeing ungodliness and violence prevail; especially among those who profess the truth. No man scrupled doing wrong to his neighbour. We should long to remove to the world where holiness and love reign for ever, and no violence shall be before us. God has good reasons for his long-suffering towards bad men, and the rebukes of good men. The day will come when the cry of sin will be heard against those that do wrong, and the cry of prayer for those that suffer wrong. They were to notice what was going forward among the heathen by the Chaldeans, and to consider themselves a nation to be scourged by them. But most men presume on continued prosperity, or that calamities will not come in their days. They are a bitter and hasty nation, fierce, cruel, and bearing down all before them. They shall overcome all that oppose them. But it is a great offence, and the common offence of proud people, to take glory to themselves. The closing words give a glimpse of comfort.
Advance Bent Captives Captivity Collect Crowd Desert Direction Eagerly East Face Faces Force Forward Gather Gathers Goes Horde Hordes Moves Prisoners Sand Sands Sea Sup Swallowing Terror Violence Wholly Wind
Advance Bent Captives Captivity Collect Crowd Desert Direction Eagerly East Face Faces Force Forward Gather Gathers Goes Horde Hordes Moves Prisoners Sand Sands Sea Sup Swallowing Terror Violence Wholly Wind
