Habakkuk 1:17
Good News Translation
Are they going to use their swords forever and keep on destroying nations without mercy?

New Revised Standard Version
Is he then to keep on emptying his net, and destroying nations without mercy?

Contemporary English Version
Will he keep hauling in his nets and destroying nations without showing mercy?

New American Bible
Shall they, then, keep on drawing his sword to slaughter nations without mercy?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For this cause therefore he spreadeth his net, and will not spare continually to slay the nations.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For this cause therefore he spreadeth his net, and will not spare continually to slay the nations.

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Habakkuk 1:9,10 They shall all come to the prey, their face is like a burning wind: and they shall gather together captives as the sand. . . .

Habakkuk 2:5-8,17 And as wine deceiveth him that drinketh it: so shall the proud man be, and he shall not be honoured: who hath enlarged his desire like hell: and is himself like death, and he is never satisfied: but will gather together unto him all nations, and heap together unto him all people. . . .

Isaiah 14:16,17 They that shall see thee, shall turn toward thee, and behold thee. Is this the man that troubled the earth, that shook kingdoms, . . .

Jeremiah 25:9-26 Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. . . .

Jeremiah 46:1-49:39 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles, . . .

Jeremiah 52:1-34 Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremiah of Lobna. . . .

Ezekiel 25:1-30:26 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: . . .

Context
Habakkuk's Second Complaint
16Therefore will he offer victims to his drag, and he will sacrifice to his net: because through them his portion is made fat, and his meat dainty. 17For this cause therefore he spreadeth his net, and will not spare continually to slay the nations.
Cross References
Isaiah 14:5
The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of the rulers,

Isaiah 14:6
That struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, that brought nations under in fury, that persecuted in a cruel manner.

Isaiah 19:8
The fishers also shall mourn, and all that cast a hook into the river shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish away.

Habakkuk 1:16
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