Habakkuk 1:10

And they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision unto them; they deride every stronghold, for they heap up earth, and take it.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

In Context

9They come all of them for violence; their faces are set eagerly as the east wind; and they gather captives as the sand.

11Then their spirit doth pass over and transgress, and they become guilty: even they who impute their might unto their god.

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Cross References

2 Kings 25:6Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.

2 Chronicles 36:10And at the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 30:5For thus saith the LORD: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

Jeremiah 33:4For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down for mounds, and for ramparts;

Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 1:6-12

Judgment Predicted. ( b. c. 600.) 5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. 6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places that are not theirs. 7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. 8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more… Read the whole commentary →

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