Habakkuk 1:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?”
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“Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Shall he therefore empty his net, and spare not to slay the nations continually?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Doth he therefore empty his net, And continually to slay nations spare not?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Habakkuk 1:17 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 14:6It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.
- Isaiah 14:16Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,
- Isaiah 19:8Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.
- Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
- Jeremiah 25:12But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
- Jeremiah 46:1This is the word of the LORD about the nations—the word that came to Jeremiah the prophet
- Jeremiah 52:1Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
- Ezekiel 25:1Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Habakkuk 1:9All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.
- Habakkuk 2:5and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.
- Habakkuk 2:17For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
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