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Habakkuk 1:7

Judgment

5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

9 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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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
They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty.
KJV
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
WEB
They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
ASV
They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
DARBY
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
BLB
He [is] terrible and fearsome; his justice and his dignity go forth from him.
ÅB
Fryktelig og forferdelig er det; fra seg selv henter det sin rett og sin høyhet.
OTB
De er fryktinngytende og skremmende;
deres rettferdighet og verdighet kommer fra dem selv.
B1930
Fryktelig og forferdelig er det; fra sig selv henter det sin rett og sin høihet.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Jeremiah 39:5–9

    But the Chaldeans’ army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

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  • Jeremiah 52:9–11

    Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.

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  • Isaiah 18:7

    In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

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  • Deuteronomy 5:27

    Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.

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  • Deuteronomy 5:19

    Neither shalt thou steal.

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  • Jeremiah 52:25–27

    He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king’s person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe 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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