Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Shall they not rise up suddenly, biting thee? and they disquieting thee shall rise up, and thou wert for plunder to them.
New American Standard Bible
And those who
Indeed, you will become plunder for them.
King James Version
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
Holman Bible
and those who disturb you wake up?
Then you will become spoil for them.
International Standard Version
Won't your creditors revolt unexpectedly? Won't those who make you tremble wake up? As a result, you'll become their prey!
A Conservative Version
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee. And thou shall be for booty to them?
American Standard Version
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booty unto them?
Amplified
“Will your creditors not rise up suddenly,
And those who collect from you awaken?
Then you will become plunder for them.
Bible in Basic English
Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?
Darby Translation
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and they awake up that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
King James 2000
Shall they not rise up suddenly that are your creditors, and awake that shall oppress you, and you shall be for booty unto them?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Will not your creditors suddenly rise up and awaken those who make you tremble? Then you shall be as plunder for them.
Modern King James verseion
Shall not those who strike you rise up suddenly, and those who shake you awake, and you become a prize to them?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O how suddenly will they stand up, that shall bite thee, and awake, that shall tear thee in pieces? Yea, thou shalt be their prey.
NET Bible
Your creditors will suddenly attack; those who terrify you will spring into action, and they will rob you.
New Heart English Bible
Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
The Emphasized Bible
Will not thy creditors, suddenly rise up? and they who shall violently shake thee, all at once become active? Then shalt thou serve for booties, unto them!
Webster
Shall they not rise suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall disturb thee, and thou shalt be for booties to them?
World English Bible
Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
Youngs Literal Translation
Do not thy usurers instantly rise up, And those shaking thee awake up, And thou hast been for a spoil to them?
Themes
Glory » Whose glory becomes shame
Iniquity » Those that build a city with iniquity
Profit » Those that profit from violence
Riches » Denunciations against those who » Increase, by oppression
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 2:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Doom On The Unrighteous
6 Shall not these all of them lift up a parable against him, and an enigma of an oracle against him, and it shall be said, Wo! to him multiplying that not to him. how long making heavy upon him goods taken in pledge? 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly, biting thee? and they disquieting thee shall rise up, and thou wert for plunder to them. 8 For thou didst spoil many nations, all the rest of the peoples shall spoil thee; from the bloods of man, and the violence of the land, of the city, and all dwelling in it.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:1
A Man of reproofs hardening the neck, shall be suddenly broken, and no healing.
Ecclesiastes 10:8
He digging a ditch shall fall into it; he breaking down a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
Isaiah 13:1-5
The burden of Babel which Isaiah son of Amos saw.
Isaiah 13:16-18
And their children shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, and their houses shall be plundered, and their wives shall be ravished.
Isaiah 21:2-9
A hard vision was announced to me: The spoiler spoiled, and he laying waste, laid waste. Go up, O Elam: press, O Media; all her sighing I caused to cease.
Isaiah 41:25
I roused up from the north, and he will come: from the rising of the sun he shall call upon my name: and he shall come upon prefects as clay, and as the potter will tread down the mud.
Isaiah 45:1-3
Thus said Jehovah to his Messiah, to Cyrus whom I held by his right hand to bring down nations before him; and I will loosen the loins of kings to open before him the doors; and the gates shall not be shut
Isaiah 46:11
Calling a ravenous beast from the sunrising, from a land afar off a man of my counsel: also I spake, also I will bring it; I formed, also I will do it.
Isaiah 47:11
And evil came upon thee; thou shalt not know its dawn, and ruin shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to expiate it, and desolation shall suddenly come upon thee; thou shalt not know.
Isaiah 48:14-15
Assemble, all ye, and hear; who among them announced these things? Jehovah loved him: he will do his delight upon Babel, and his arm upon the Chaldeans
Jeremiah 8:17
For behold me sending serpents, vipers among you, which to them no hissing, and they bit you, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 50:21-32
Go up against the land of double rebellion, against her, and against the inhabitants of Pekod, laying waste and destroying after them, says Jehovah; and do according to all which I commanded thee.
Jeremiah 51:11
Polish the arrows; fill the quivers: Jehovah roused up the spirit of the kings of the Males: for his purpose is against Babel, to destroy her; for it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah 51:27-28
Lift up a signal in the earth, strike ye the trumpet in the nations, consecrate the nations against her, cause ye to be heard against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint over her a satrap; bring up the horse as the bristling locust
Jeremiah 51:57
And I made drunk her chiefs and her wise, her prefects and her rulers, and her strong ones: and they shall sleep an eternal sleep, and they shall not rise up, says the King, Jehovah of armies his name.
Daniel 5:25-31
And this the writing that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL and PHARSIN.
Nahum 1:9-10
What will ye purpose against Jehovah? he made a completion: straits shall not rise up twice.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape.