Habakkuk 1:17
For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 14:6He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.
Isaiah 19:8The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts.
Jeremiah 25:12And it will come about, after seventy years are ended, that I will send punishment on the king of Babylon, and on that nation, says the Lord, for their evil-doing, and on the land of the Chaldaeans; and I will make it a waste for ever.
Jeremiah 52:1Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was king for eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Habakkuk 1:9They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.
Habakkuk 2:17For the violent acts against Lebanon will come on you, and the destruction of the cattle will be a cause of fear to you, because of men's blood and the violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 1:13-17
The Prophet's Plea; The Prophet's Complaint. ( b. c. 600.) 12 Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die . O Lord , thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. 13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? 14 And makest men as the fishes of the… Read the whole commentary →