Parallel Verses
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.
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?
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.
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?
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 But shall not all these take up a proverb against him, and mock him with a byword, and say, "Woe unto him that heapeth up other men's goods: How long will he lade himself with thick clay?" 7 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. 8 Seeing thou hast spoiled many Heathen, therefore shall the remnant of the people spoil thee: because of men's blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the city and unto all them that dwell therein.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:1
He that is stiff necked and will not be reformed, shall suddenly be destroyed without any help.
Ecclesiastes 10:8
But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Isaiah 13:1-5
This is the heavy burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amos did see.
Isaiah 13:16-18
Their children shall be slain before their eyes, their houses spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Isaiah 21:2-9
Whoso may deceive, said the voice, let him deceive: Who so may destroy, let him destroy. Up Elam, besiege it O Media, for I will still all their groanings.
Isaiah 41:25
Nevertheless, I have waked up one from the North, and he shall come. And another from the East, which shall call upon my name, and shall come to the princes, as the Potter to his clay, and as the Potter treadeth down the mire.
Isaiah 45:1-3
Thus sayeth the LORD unto Cyrus his anointed, whom I have taken by the righthand, to subdue nations before him: I will loose the girdles of kings, that they shall open the gates before thy face, and not to shut their doors.
Isaiah 46:11
I call a bird out of the East, and all that I take in hand, out of far countries, as soon as I command, I bring it hither: as soon as I think to devise a thing, I do it.
Isaiah 47:11
Therefore shall trouble come upon thee, and thou shalt not know, from whence it shall arise. Mischief shalt fall upon thee, which thou shalt not be able to put off. A sudden misery shall come upon thee, before thou be aware.
Isaiah 48:14-15
Gather you all together, and hearken: Which of yonder gods hath declared this? The LORD God hath a love unto him, and he shall perform his will against Babel and declare his power against the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah 8:17
Moreover, I will send Cockatrices and serpents among you which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you," sayeth the LORD.
Jeremiah 50:21-32
"Go down, O thou avenger, into the enemies' land, and visit them that dwell therein: down with them, and smite them upon the backs, sayeth the LORD. Do according to all, that I have commanded thee.
Jeremiah 51:11
Make sharp the arrows, and fill the quivers: for the LORD shall raise up the spirit of the king of the Medes, which hath already a desire to destroy Babylon. This shall be the vengeance of the LORD's, and the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah 51:27-28
Set up a token in the land, blow the trumpets among the Heathen, provoke the nations against her, call the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz against her: set the prince against her, bring as great a sort of horses against her, as if they were grasshoppers.
Jeremiah 51:57
Yea, sayeth the LORD, I will make their princes, their wise men, their chief rulers and all their worthies, drunken: so that they shall sleep an everlasting sleep and never wake. Thus sayeth the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
Daniel 5:25-31
And this is the scripture that is written up, 'Mene, Tekel, Phares.'
Nahum 1:9-10
What imagine ye against the LORD? He makes an utter end: ye shall not be troubled twice.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, "Peace, no danger," then cometh on them sudden destruction, as the travailing of a woman with child, and they shall not escape.