Habakkuk 2:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ For the violence done to Lebanon will cover and overwhelm you; the destruction of the animals [which the violence frightened away] will terrify you on account of men's blood and the violence done to the land, to the city and all its inhabitants.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee, and the destruction of the beasts, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Because of the violence done to Lebanon, he will overwhelm you; the destruction of animals will terrify you, as will human bloodshed and violence throughout the land, the villages, and all their inhabitants.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ For the iniquity of Lebanon will cover you, and the devastation of animals which will deter them from the blood of men, and the iniquity of the earth and the city, and of all who dwell therein.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ For the iniquity of Libanus shall cover thee, and the ravaging of beasts shall terrify them because of the blood of men, and the iniquity of the land, and of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

Habakkuk 2:17 Cross References

Psalm 137:8

O daughter Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall they be who pay you back what you have done to us!

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

Proverbs 28:17

If someone is burdened with the blood of another, let that killer be a fugitive until death; let no one offer assistance.

Jeremiah 50:14

Take up your positions around Babylon, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her; spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:28

Listen! Fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon are coming to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, vengeance for his temple.

Jeremiah 51:24

I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the wrong that they have done in Zion, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 28:16

In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned, so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I drove you out, O guardian cherub, from among the stones of fire.

Ezekiel 31:16

I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the Pit, and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that were well watered, were consoled in the world below.

Joel 3:19

Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood.

Habakkuk 1:17

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

Habakkuk 2:8

Because you have plundered many nations, all who survive of the peoples shall plunder you— because of human bloodshed and violence to the earth, to cities and all who live in them.

Zechariah 11:1

Open your doors, O Lebanon, so that fire may devour your cedars!