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Bible in Basic English
They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.
New American Standard Bible
Their
King James Version
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
Holman Bible
their views of justice and sovereignty
stem from themselves.
International Standard Version
They are terrible and fearsome; their brand of justice and sense of honor derive only from themselves!
A Conservative Version
They are fearful and dreadful. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
American Standard Version
They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
Amplified
“The Chaldeans are dreaded and feared;
Their justice and authority originate with themselves and are defined only by their decree.
Darby Translation
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
Julia Smith Translation
He terrible and dreadful: his judgment and his elevation shall come forth from himself,
King James 2000
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed from themselves.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They [are] dreadful and awesome; their justice and their dignity proceed from themselves.
Modern King James verseion
He is terrible and fearful; his judgment and his majesty comes forth from Himself.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A grim and boisterous people is it, these shall sit in judgment and punish.
NET Bible
They are frightening and terrifying; they decide for themselves what is right.
New Heart English Bible
They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
The Emphasized Bible
Awful and fearful, is he, - from himself, his decision and his uprising, proceed.
Webster
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed from themselves.
World English Bible
They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
Youngs Literal Translation
Terrible and fearful it is, From itself its judgment and its excellency go forth.
Themes
Babylon » As a power, was » Cruel and destructive
Babylon » Armies of, described
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 1:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Answer To Habakkuk
6 For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs. 7 They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves. 8 And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 39:5-9
But the Chaldaean army went after them and overtook Zedekiah in the lowlands of Jericho: and they made him a prisoner and took him up to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, to be judged by him.
Deuteronomy 5:19
Do not take the property of another.
Deuteronomy 5:27
Do you go near: and after hearing everything which the Lord our God has to say, give us an account of all he has said to you, and we will give ear, and do it.
Isaiah 18:7
In that time an offering will be made to the Lord of armies from a people tall and smooth, causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers, an offering taken to the place of the name of the Lord of armies, even Mount Zion.
Jeremiah 52:9-11
Then they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath to be judged.
Jeremiah 52:25-27
And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and seven of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town.