Habakkuk 1:10
Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.
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In Context
9All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.
11Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god."
Cross References
2 Kings 25:6Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him.
2 Chronicles 36:10At 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 says the Lord: "We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
Jeremiah 33:4For thus says 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 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 →