Habakkuk 1:17

Habakkuk chapter 1 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Shall he therefore empty his net, and spare not to slay the nations continually?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Shall he therefore empty his net, and spare not to slay the nations continually?

Context

v.16Therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; because by them his portion is fat, and his food plenteous.

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Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 19:8

    And the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

  • Jeremiah 52:1

    Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

  • Habakkuk 1:9

    They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.

  • Ezekiel 25:1

    And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

  • Jeremiah 25:9

    behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

  • Jeremiah 46:1

    The word of Jehovah which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.