Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“They are dreaded and feared;
Their justice and authority originate with themselves.

King James Version

They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

Holman Bible

They are fierce and terrifying;
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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אים 
'ayom 
Usage: 3

שׂאת 
S@'eth 
Usage: 14

יצא 
Yatsa' 
....out, ....forth, bring, come, proceed, go, depart,
Usage: 1068

References

American

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

God's Answer To Habakkuk

6 For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own. 7 “They are dreaded and feared;
Their justice and authority originate with themselves.
8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.

Cross References

Jeremiah 39:5-9

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, at Riblah, in the land of Hamath; and he passed sentence on him.

Deuteronomy 5:19

"'And you shall not steal.

Deuteronomy 5:27

Go near and hear all that the LORD our God will say and speak to us all that the LORD our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.'

Isaiah 18:7

At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide,to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of hosts.

Jeremiah 52:9-11

Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.

Jeremiah 52:25-27

and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and seven men of the king's council, who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.

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