Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

New American Standard Bible

Will they therefore empty their net
And continually slay nations without sparing?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Will they therefore empty their net
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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
רוּק 
Ruwq 
Usage: 19

and not spare
חמל 
Chamal 
Usage: 41

to slay
הרג 
Harag 
Usage: 166

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Habakkuk's Second Complaint

16 Therefore he doth sacrifice to his net, And doth make perfume to his drag, For by them is his portion fertile, and his food fat. 17 Doth he therefore empty his net, And continually to slay nations spare not?


Cross References

Isaiah 14:6

He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint!

Isaiah 14:16-17

Thy beholders look to thee, to thee they attend, Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, Shaking kingdoms?

Isaiah 19:8

And lamented have the fishers, And mourned have all casting angle into a brook, And those spreading nets on the face of the waters have languished.

Jeremiah 25:9-26

Lo, I am sending, and have taken all the families of the north -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- even unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and have brought them in against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and have devoted them, and appointed them for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for wastes age-during.

Jeremiah 46:1-28

That which hath been the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations,

Jeremiah 52:1-34

A son of twenty and one years is Zedekiah in his reigning, and eleven years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother is Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Ezekiel 25:1-17

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

Habakkuk 1:9-10

Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.

Habakkuk 2:5-8

And also, because the wine is treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,

Habakkuk 2:17

For violence to Lebanon doth cover thee, And spoil of beasts doth affright them, Because of man's blood, and of violence to the land, To the city, and to all dwelling in it.

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