Habakkuk 1:15
He brings all of them up with a fishhook; 1 he drags men away in his fishnet; 1 he gathers them together in his dragnet; 1 so he rejoices and he is glad. 1
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14You make men like fish in the sea, like creeping things without a ruler over them. 1
Cross References
Isaiah 19:8The fishermen will wail and mourn, and all who cast a hook into the Nile will mourn, 1 and those who spread nets on the waters will grieve. 1
Jeremiah 50:11You rejoice, you celebrate the plundering of my inheritance; 1 you jump around like a calf stamping in its pasture; 1 you neigh like a powerful horse. 1
Ezekiel 25:6For the Lord Yahweh says this: You have clapped your hands and stamped your feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt within you against the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 29:4For I will place hooks in your jaw, and the fish of your Nile will cling to your scales; I will lift you up from the middle of your river along with all the fish of the river that cling to your scales. 1
Amos 4:2The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness, 1 “Look, the days will come on you 1 when they will take you away with hooks, 1 the last of you with fishhooks. 1
Matthew 17:27But so that we do not cause the tax collectors to sin, go to the sea, throw in a hook, and draw in the fish that comes up first. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a shekel. Take it and give it to the tax collectors for me and you.”
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 →