Habakkuk 1:17

In 11 translations

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?

LSV

Does he therefore empty his net, || And continually not spare to slay nations?

YLT

Doth he therefore empty his net, And continually to slay nations spare not?

DBY

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

DRC

For this cause therefore he spreadeth his net, and will not spare continually to slay the nations.

GNV

Shall they therefore stretch out their net and not spare continually to slay the nations?

JPS

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

LXXE

Therefore will he cast his net, and will not spare to slay the nations continually.

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WLC

הַ֥עַל כֵּ֖ן יָרִ֣יק חֶרְמ֑וֹ וְתָמִ֛יד לַהֲרֹ֥ג גּוֹיִ֖ם לֹ֥א יַחְמֽוֹל׃

LXX-Br

Διατοῦτο ἀμφιβαλεῖ τὸ ἀμφίβληστρον αὐτοῦ, καὶ διαπαντὸς ἀποκτέννειν ἔθνη οὐ φείσεται.

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• Habakkuk 2:17For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
• Habakkuk 2:5–8and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his…
• Habakkuk 1:9–10All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand. They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps…
• Jeremiah 25:9–26behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the…
• Isaiah 14:6It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.
• Isaiah 19:8Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.
• Ezekiel 25:1–17Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them. Tell the Ammonites to hear the word of the Lord GOD, for this is what the Lord GOD says:…
• Isaiah 14:16–17Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble, who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives…
• Jeremiah 46:1–28This is the word of the LORD about the nations—the word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by…
• Jeremiah 52:1–34Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah. And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD,…

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