Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.
New American Standard Bible
And continually
King James Version
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
Holman Bible
and continually slaughter nations without mercy?
International Standard Version
Is he to continue to empty his fishing net? Will he ever stop killing entire nations without mercy?"
A Conservative Version
Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to kill the nations continually?
American Standard Version
Shall he therefore empty his net, and spare not to slay the nations continually?
Amplified
Will they continue to empty their net
And [mercilessly] go on destroying nations without sparing?
Darby Translation
Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to slay the nations continually?
Julia Smith Translation
For this, will he empty his net; and he will not spare to slay the nations continually.
King James 2000
Shall they therefore empty their net, and continually slay the nations without mercy?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Will he therefore empty his fishnet and continually kill nations without showing mercy?
Modern King James verseion
Shall he then empty his net, and shall he not spare to continually slay nations?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore they cast out their net again, and never cease to slay the people.
NET Bible
Will he then continue to fill and empty his throw net? Will he always destroy nations and spare none?
New Heart English Bible
Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
The Emphasized Bible
Shall he, on this account, empty his net? And, the continual slaying of nations, deem to be no pity?
Webster
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
World English Bible
Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
Youngs Literal Translation
Doth he therefore empty his net, And continually to slay nations spare not?
Interlinear
Cherem
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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 1:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Habakkuk's Second Complaint
16 For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat. 17 For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 14:6
He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.
Isaiah 14:16-17
Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?
Isaiah 19:8
The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts.
Jeremiah 25:9-26
See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever.
Jeremiah 46:1-28
The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about the nations.
Jeremiah 52:1-34
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was king for eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Ezekiel 25:1-17
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Habakkuk 1:9-10
They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.
Habakkuk 2:5-8
A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.
Habakkuk 2:17
For the violent acts against Lebanon will come on you, and the destruction of the cattle will be a cause of fear to you, because of men's blood and the violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.