Habakkuk 1:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ Is he then to keep on emptying his net and destroying nations without mercy?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Shall he therefore continue to empty his net and mercilessly go on slaying the nations forever?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Shall he therefore empty his net, and spare not to slay the nations continually?

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Should he continue to empty his net and continue to slay nations without sparing them?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Because of this, therefore, he expands his dragnet and will not be lenient in continually putting to death the peoples.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ For this cause therefore he spreadeth his net, and will not spare continually to slay the nations.

Habakkuk 1:17 Cross References

Isaiah 14:5

The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers,

Isaiah 14:6

that struck down the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.

Isaiah 19:8

Those who fish will mourn; all who cast hooks in the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the water will languish.

Habakkuk 2:17

For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of the animals will terrify you— because of human bloodshed and violence to the earth, to cities and all who live in them.