Parallel Verses
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?
Bible in Basic English
For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.
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
Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his dragnet; for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich.
17
And continually
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 14:6
that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.
Isaiah 14:16-17
Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,
Isaiah 19:8
The fishermen will mourn and lament, all who cast a hook in the Nile; and they will languish who spread nets on the water.
Jeremiah 25:9-26
behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jeremiah 46:1-28
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Jeremiah 52:1-34
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Ezekiel 25:1-17
The word of the LORD came to me:
Habakkuk 1:9-10
They all come for violence, all their faces forward. They gather captives like sand.
Habakkuk 2:5-8
"Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples."
Habakkuk 2:17
The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.