Habakkuk 1:6

New American Bible - revised edition

For now I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and impulsive people, Who march the breadth of the land to take dwellings not their own.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:1

During Jehoiakim’s reign Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked, and Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years. Then Jehoiakim turned and rebelled against him.

2 Kings 24:2

The Lord loosed against him bands of Chaldeans, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites; he unleashed them against Judah to destroy him, according to the Lord’s word spoken through his servants the prophets.

2 Chronicles 36:17

Then he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in their own sanctuary, with compassion for neither young men nor young women, neither the old nor the infirm; all of them he delivered into his power.

2 Chronicles 36:6

Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.

Isaiah 23:13

Look at the land of the Chaldeans, the people that has ceased to be. Assyria founded it for ships, raised its towers, Only to tear down its palaces, and turn it into a ruin.

Jeremiah 13:20

Lift up your eyes and see those coming in from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, your splendid sheep?

Jeremiah 21:4

Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I will turn against you the weapons with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls. These weapons I will pile up in the midst of this city,

Jeremiah 21:7

After that—oracle of the Lord—I will hand over Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his ministers and the people in this city who survive pestilence, sword, and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to their enemies and those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword, without quarter, without mercy or compassion.

Jeremiah 25:9

I am about to send for and fetch all the tribes from the north—oracle of the Lord—and I will send for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all these neighboring nations. I will doom them, making them an object of horror, of hissing, of everlasting reproach.

Jeremiah 30:5

Thus says the Lord: We hear a cry of fear: terror, not peace.

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A scorching wind from the bare heights comes through the wilderness toward my daughter, the people. Not to winnow, not to cleanse,

Jeremiah 4:6

Raise the signal—to Zion! Seek refuge! Don’t stand there! Disaster I bring from the north, and great destruction.

Jeremiah 4:8

So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail: “The blazing anger of the Lord has not turned away from us.”

Jeremiah 5:15

Beware! I will bring against you a nation from far away, O House of Israel—oracle of the Lord; A long-lived nation, an ancient nation, a people whose language you do not know, whose speech you cannot understand.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore, I will give their wives to other men, their fields to new owners. Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain, prophet and priest, all practice fraud.

Ezekiel 16:40

They shall lead an assembly against you to stone you and hack you to pieces with their swords.

Ezekiel 21:31

Thus says the Lord God: Off with the turban and away with the crown! Nothing shall be as it was! Exalt the lowly and bring the exalted low!

Ezekiel 28:7

Therefore, I will bring against you strangers, the most bloodthirsty of nations. They shall draw their swords against your splendid wisdom, and violate your radiance.

Ezekiel 31:12

and foreigners have cut it down, The most ruthless nations, have hurled it on the mountains. Its boughs fell into every valley and its branches lay broken in every ravine in the land. All the peoples of the earth departed from its shade when it was hurled down.

Joel 2:3

Before it, fire devours, behind it flame scorches. The land before it is like the garden of Eden, and behind it, a desolate wilderness; from it nothing escapes.