Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
They [are] dreadful and awesome; their justice 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.
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.
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
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 1:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Answer To Habakkuk
6 For look! I am raising up the Chaldeans, the bitter and impetuous nation, the one who walks through the spacious places of earth to take possession of dwellings not belonging to it. 7 They [are] dreadful and awesome; their justice and their dignity proceed from themselves. 8 Their horses [are] more swift than leopards; they are more menacing than wolves [at] dusk. Their horsemen gallop; their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle [that is] swift to devour.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 39:5-9
But 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 the king of Babylon [at] Riblah in the land of Hamath. And he pronounced {sentence} on him.
Deuteronomy 5:19
'And you shall not steal.
Deuteronomy 5:27
[You] go near and hear {everything} that Yahweh our God will say; and [then] you tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you, and we will listen, and we will do [it].'
Isaiah 18:7
At that time, a gift will be brought to Yahweh of hosts [from] a {tall} and {smooth} people, and from a people feared near and far, a mighty, mighty and trampling nation, whose land [the] rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts, the mountain of Zion.
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 one high official who was chief officer over {the soldiers}, and seven men of {the king's advisors} who were found in the city, and the secretary of the commander of the army who levied for military service the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.