Habakkuk 1:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Habakkuk 1:17 Cross References

Habakkuk 2:17

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.

Isaiah 19:8

The fishers also shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

Isaiah 14:6

that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

Isaiah 14:5

The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers;