Habakkuk 1:17 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Will they keep on emptying their nets and always kill nations without mercy?(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

ASV:

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

BBE:

For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare to slay the nations continually?

WBS:

Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

WEB:

Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?

YLT:

Doth he therefore empty his net, And continually to slay nations spare not?

Habakkuk 1:17 Cross References

XREF:

Isaiah 14:5 "The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of rulers

Isaiah 14:6 Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes, Which subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.

Isaiah 19:8 And the fishermen will lament, And all those who cast a line into the Nile will mourn, And those who spread nets on the waters will pine away. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

1:17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay {n} the nations?
(n) Meaning, that they would not.

WES:

1:17 Empty their net - As fisher - men empty the full net to fill it again.

MHC:

1:12-17 However matters may be, yet God is the Lord our God, our Holy One. We are an offending people, he is an offended God, yet we will not entertain hard thoughts of him, or of his service. It is great comfort that, whatever mischief men design, the Lord designs good, and we are sure that his counsel shall stand. Though wickedness may prosper a while, yet God is holy, and does not approve the wickedness. As he cannot do iniquity himself, so he is of purer eyes than to behold it with any approval. By this principle we must abide, though the dispensations of his providence may for a time, in some cases, seem to us not to agree with it. The prophet complains that God's patience was abused; and because sentence against these evil works and workers was not executed speedily, their hearts were the more fully set in them to do evil. Some they take up as with the angle, one by one; others they catch in shoals, as in their net, and gather them in their drag, their enclosing net. They admire their own cleverness and contrivance: there is great proneness in us to take the glory of outward prosperity to ourselves. This is idolizing ourselves, sacrificing to the drag-net because it is our own. God will soon end successful and splendid robberies. Death and judgment shall make men cease to prey on others, and they shall be preyed on themselves. Let us remember, whatever advantages we possess, we must give all the glory to God.

CONC:

Cause Continually Destroying Destruction Empty Emptying Kill Mercilessly Mercy Nations Net Open Slay Slaying Spare Sparing

Cause Continually Destroying Destruction Empty Emptying End Kill Mercilessly Mercy Nations Net Open Slay Slaying Spare Sparing

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