Habakkuk 1:6

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift nation, marching upon the breadth of the earth, to possess the dwelling places that are not their own.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:2

And the Lord sent against him the rovers of the Chaldees, and the rovers of Syria, and the rovers of Moab, and the rovers of the children of Ammon. And he sent them against Juda, to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by his servants the prophets.

Jeremiah 5:15

Behold, I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say.

Jeremiah 25:9

Behold, I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this land and against the inhabitants thereof and against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy them and make them an astonishment and a hissing and perpetual desolations.

Isaiah 23:13

Behold the land of the Chaldeans: there was not such a people: the Assyrian founded it. They have led away the strong ones thereof into captivity, they have destroyed the houses thereof, they have brought it to ruin.

Jeremiah 21:4

Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, and with which you fight against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans that besiege you round about the walls: and I will gather them together in the midst of this city.

Jeremiah 4:8

For this, gird yourselves with haircloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned away from us.

Jeremiah 4:6

Set up the standard in Sion. Strengthen yourselves, stay not: for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.

2 Chronicles 36:17

For he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans: and he slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary. He had no compassion on young man, or maiden, old man, or even him that stooped for age; but he delivered them all into his hands.

2 Chronicles 36:6

Against him came up Nabuchodonosor king of the Chaldeans, and led him bound in chains into Babylon.

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A burning wind is in the ways that are in the desert of the way of the daughter of my people, not to fan nor to cleanse.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore I will give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest all deal deceitfully.

Jeremiah 13:20

Lift up your eyes and see, you that come from the north. Where is the flock that is given thee, thy beautiful cattle?

Jeremiah 21:7

And after this, saith the Lord, I will give Sedecias the king of Juda, and his servants, and his people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence and the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword, and he shall not be moved to pity nor spare them nor shew mercy on them.

Ezekiel 16:40

And they shall bring upon thee a multitude: and they shall stone thee with stones and shall slay thee with their swords.

Ezekiel 21:31

And I will pour out upon thee my indignation: in the fire of my rage will I blow upon thee and will give thee into the hands of men that are brutish and contrive thy destruction.

Ezekiel 28:7

Therefore behold, I will bring upon thee strangers the strongest of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy beauty.

Ezekiel 31:12

And strangers, and the most cruel of the nations shall cut him down, and cast him away upon the mountains, and his boughs shall fall in every valley, and his branches shall be broken on every rock of the country: and all the people of the earth shall depart from his shadow, and leave him.

2 Kings 24:1

In his days Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up, and Joakim became his servant three years. Then again he rebelled against him.

Jeremiah 30:5

For thus saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of terror: there is fear and no peace.

Joel 2:3

Before the face thereof a devouring fire, and behind it a burning flame: the land is like a garden of pleasure before it, and behind it a desolate wilderness, neither is there any one that can escape it.