Habakkuk 1:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty.”
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“They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.”
King James Version · Public Domain“They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Terrible and fearful it <FI>is<Fi> , From itself its judgment and its excellency go forth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Habakkuk 1:7 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 5:19You shall not steal.
- Deuteronomy 5:27Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you; we will listen and obey.”
- Isaiah 14:17who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
- Isaiah 18:7At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts— from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 47:8So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’
- Jeremiah 39:5But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.
- Jeremiah 52:9The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on Zedekiah.
- Jeremiah 52:25Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.
- Zephaniah 2:15This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
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