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 raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which march through the breadth of the earth to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs. 7 “They are dreaded and feared;
Their justice and authority originate with themselves.
8 Their horses shall be swifter than tigers and are sharper than the evening wolves, and their horsemen shall multiply themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as eagles that hasten to eat.

Cross References

Jeremiah 39:5-9

But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he sentenced him.

Deuteronomy 5:19

Thou shalt not steal.

Deuteronomy 5:27

Go thou near and hear all that the LORD our God shall say, and thou shalt tell us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.

Isaiah 18:7

In that time the present shall be brought unto the LORD of the hosts, the people scattered and peeled, the people full of fears from their beginning and until now, a people tired of waiting and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of the hosts, to the Mount Zion.

Jeremiah 52:9-11

So they took the king and caused him to come up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath where he pronounced the sentence upon him.

Jeremiah 52:25-27

He also took out of the city a eunuch, who had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of those that were near the king's person, who were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land for war; and sixty men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.

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