Habakkuk 1:9

⁹ They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #225

225. Internal Meaning of Habakkuk, Chapter 1 (1)

Of violence and injustice. (3)

1-5 Justice and truth perish. Grief on the part of the Lord, and directed to the Lord. (3)

6-11 The Jewish church profaned all the truths and goods of the Word and of the church. (3)

12-17 The Lord's grief continued, that the evil prevail over the good, and destroy them. (3)

Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.