Habakkuk 1:7
What does Habakkuk 1:7 mean?
A plain-English look at Habakkuk 1:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Terrible and fearful it <FI>is<Fi> , From itself its judgment and its excellency go forth.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752They are dreadful, and terrible: from themselves shall their judgment, and their burden proceed.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
Context
v.6For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.
v.7This passage
v.8Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen press proudly on: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 5:19
Neither shalt thou steal.
- Jeremiah 39:5
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him.
- Jeremiah 52:9
Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him.
- Deuteronomy 5:27
Go thou near, and hear all that Jehovah our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that Jehovah our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
- Isaiah 18:7
In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts from a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.
- Jeremiah 52:25
and out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war; and seven men of them that saw the king’s face, that were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
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