Habakkuk 1:17
Therefore will he cast his net, and will not spare to slay the nations continually.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 14:6Having smitten a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared them not, he rested in quiet.
Isaiah 19:8And the fishermen shall groan, and all that cast a hook into the river shall groan; they also that cast nets, and the anglers shall mourn.
Jeremiah 25:12And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation.
Jeremiah 52:1It was the twenty-first year of Zedekiah, when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah, of Libnah.
Habakkuk 1:9Destruction shall come upon ungodly men, resisting with their adverse front, and he shall gather the captivity as the sand.
Habakkuk 2:17For the ungodliness of Lebanon shall cover thee, and distress because of wild beasts shall dismay thee, because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell 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 →