New American Standard Bible 1995

Habakkuk 1:14-17

14Why have You made men like the fish of the sea, Like creeping things without a ruler over them?15The Chaldeans 1bring all of them up with a hook, 2Drag them away with their net, And gather them together in their fishing net. Therefore they rejoice and are glad.16Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net And 3burn incense to their fishing net; Because through 4these things their 5catch is 6large, And their food is 7plentiful.17Will they therefore empty their 8net And continually 9slay nations without sparing?

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Notes

1. Habakkuk 1:15 Jer 16:16; Amos 4:2 ↩
2. Habakkuk 1:15 Ps 10:9 ↩
3. Habakkuk 1:16 Or sacrifice ↩
4. Habakkuk 1:16 Jer 44:17 ↩
5. Habakkuk 1:16 Lit portion ↩
6. Habakkuk 1:16 Lit fat; or plentiful ↩
7. Habakkuk 1:16 Lit the fat portion ↩
8. Habakkuk 1:17 Is 19:8 ↩
9. Habakkuk 1:17 Is 14:5, 6 ↩

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