Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
And they themselves scoff at kings and rulers [are] a joke to them. They laugh at every fortification, and they heap up earth and take it.
New American Standard Bible
And rulers are a laughing matter to them.
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And
King James Version
And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
Holman Bible
and rulers are a joke to them.
They laugh
and build siege ramps to capture
International Standard Version
They make fun of kings, deriding those who rule. They laugh at all of the fortified places, constructing ramps to seize them.
A Conservative Version
Yea, he scoffs at kings, and rulers are a derision to him. He derides every stronghold, for he heaps up dust, and takes it.
American Standard Version
Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a derision unto him; he derideth every stronghold; for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it.
Amplified
“They make fun of kings
And rulers are a laughing matter to them.
They ridicule every stronghold
And heap up rubble [for earth mounds] and capture it.
Bible in Basic English
He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.
Darby Translation
Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a scorn unto him; he derideth every stronghold: for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it.
Julia Smith Translation
And he shall scoff at kings, and princes a derision to him: at every fortress he shall deride, and he shall heap up dust and take it
King James 2000
And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every stronghold; for they shall heap up earth, and take it.
Modern King James verseion
And they shall scoff at the kings, and the rulers shall be a scorn to them. They shall laugh at every stronghold, for he shall heap up dust and capture it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They shall mock the kings, and laugh the princes to scorn. They shall not set by any strong hold, for they shall lay ordinance against it, and take it.
NET Bible
They mock kings and laugh at rulers. They laugh at every fortified city; they build siege ramps and capture them.
New Heart English Bible
And they scoff at kings and deride rulers. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.
The Emphasized Bible
And, he, over kings, will make merry, and, nobles, will be a scorn to him: he, at any fortress, will laugh, once he hath heaped up dust, he hath captured it!
Webster
And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn to them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
World English Bible
Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.
Youngs Literal Translation
And at kings it doth scoff, And princes are a laughter to it, At every fenced place it doth laugh, And it heapeth up dust, and captureth it.
Interlinear
Sachaq
Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 1:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Answer To Habakkuk
9 All of them come for violence, their faces pressing forward. They gather captives like the sand. 10 And they themselves scoff at kings and rulers [are] a joke to them. They laugh at every fortification, and they heap up earth and take it. 11 Then they sweep [like the] wind and pass on; they become guilty, whose might [is] their god!"
Phrases
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:6
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon went up against him, and he bound him with bronze fetters to bring him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:10
And at the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with objects of the treasure of the house of Yahweh. And he made Zedekiah his brother king in Judah and Jerusalem.
Isaiah 14:16
Those who see you will stare at you, they will look closely at you: '[Is] this the man who made the earth tremble, who caused kingdoms to shake,
Jeremiah 32:24
Look, the siege ramps have come up [to] the city to capture it, and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword, the famine, and the plague, and what you spoke happened, and look, you [are] seeing [it].
2 Kings 24:12
Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his court officials. The king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
2 Kings 25:6-7
So they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and {they passed sentence on him}.
Jeremiah 33:4
For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, that were torn down [to make a defense] against the siege ramps and against the sword:
Jeremiah 52:4-7
{And then} in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth [day] of the month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came against Jerusalem, he and all his army. And they laid siege to it, and built siege works against it all around.