who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?*
Habakkuk 1:7 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [The Chaldeans] are terrible and dreadful; their justice and dignity proceed [only] from themselves. American Standard Version (1901) They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. Common English Bible The Chaldean is dreadful and fearful. He makes his own justice and dignity. Catholic Public Domain Version It is dreadful and terrible. From themselves, judgment and their burden will issue. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They are dreadful, and terrible: from themselves shall their judgment, and their burden proceed. |
who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?*
that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, *Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!*
In that time, a present will be brought to the LORD of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the LORD of Armies, Mount Tziyon.
Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
You, O king, saw, and behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and the aspect of it was awesome.
This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, *I am, and there is none besides me.* How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
Go you near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak you to us all that the LORD our God shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it.