Habakkuk 1:10
Yes, they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build up an earthen ramp and take it.
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In Context
9All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.
11Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.”
Cross References
2 Kings 25:6Then they captured the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him.
2 Chronicles 36:10At the return of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of the LORD’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 30:5For the LORD says: “We have heard a voice of trembling; a voice of fear, and not of peace.
Jeremiah 33:4For the LORD, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the mounds and against the sword:
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 →