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Habakkuk 1:17

15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.

Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?
KJV
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
WEB
Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
ASV
Shall he therefore empty his net, and spare not to slay the nations continually?
DARBY
Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to slay the nations continually?
BLB
Upon thus he will empty his net, and continue to slay nations without having mercy?
ÅB
Men skal de derfor fremdeles få tømme sin not og uavlatelig slå folkeslag ihjel uten skånsel?
[^1]: uten å straffe.
[^2]: * uten å hjelpe.
[^3]: kaldeerne.
OTB
Skal han da fortsette å tømme sitt nett,
og nådeløst drepe nasjoner for alltid?
B1930
Men skal de derfor fremdeles få tømme sin not og uavlatelig slå folkeslag ihjel uten skånsel?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 14:6

    He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

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  • Jeremiah 25:9–26

    Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and 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 will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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  • Ezekiel 25:1–17

    The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

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  • Jeremiah 52:1–34

    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.

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  • Habakkuk 2:17

    For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

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  • Habakkuk 1:9–10

    They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

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  • Habakkuk 2:5–8

    Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

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  • Isaiah 19:8

    The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

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