Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageEvery last one of them comes hungry for violence; their faces are thrust forward like a driving desert wind, and they sweep up captives like sand on the shore.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GThe whole of them comes for violence; the thrust of their faces is forward, and they gather captives like sand.
KJV
King James VersionThey shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleAll of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.
Footnotes
מְגַמַּת (megammat) is a hapax legomenon — it appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible — most likely from a root meaning to strain or direct eagerly forward. It captures the relentless, single-minded momentum of the Babylonian advance, faces set like flint toward conquest. F.O.G renders it "the thrust of their faces is forward" to preserve the physical image; F.O.G Message uses "faces thrust forward like a driving desert wind" to give it kinetic force and elemental scale.
