Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity proceed 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.
Bible in Basic English
They are greatly to be feared: their right comes 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 behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and impetuous nation, which marcheth through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs. 7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. 8 And their horses are swifter than the leopards, and are more agile than the evening wolves; and their horsemen prance proudly, and their horsemen come from afar: they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 39:5-9
And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and they took him, and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, unto Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment upon him.
Deuteronomy 5:19
Neither shalt thou steal.
Deuteronomy 5:27
Come thou near, and hear all that Jehovah our God will say; and speak thou to us all that Jehovah our God will speak to thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
Isaiah 18:7
In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts of a people scattered and ravaged, and from a people terrible from their existence and thenceforth, a nation of continued waiting and of treading down, whose land the rivers have spoiled, ... to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.
Jeremiah 52:9-11
And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon, unto Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced judgment upon him.
Jeremiah 52:25-27
And out of the city he took a eunuch that was set over the men of war, and seven men of them that were in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the captain of the host, who enrolled the people of the land. And sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the midst of the city.