Habakkuk 1:17

Habakkuk asks whether Babylon will be allowed to keep emptying its net, slaughtering nations endlessly without mercy. The question presses God on how long unchecked cruelty will continue.

Cross-references · 10

• Jer 46:1–28Yahweh’s word which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
• Jer 25:9–26behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
• Jer 52:1–34Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign. He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
• Isa 14:6who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.
• Isa 19:8The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.
• Isa 14:16–17Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;
• Ezek 25:1–17Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
• Hab 2:17For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.
• Hab 2:5–8Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.
• Hab 1:9–10All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

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