Habakkuk 1:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

Habakkuk 1:17 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 46:1-28
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles; …
Jeremiah 52:1-34
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. …
Ezekiel 25:1-17
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, …
Habakkuk 2:5-8
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: …
Jeremiah 25:9-26
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. …

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Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-17)

The prophet, having received of the Lord that which he was to deliver to the people, now turns to God, and again addresses himself to him for the ease of his own mind under the burden which he saw. And still he is full of complaints. If he look about him, he sees nothing but violence done by Israel; if he look before him, he sees nothing but violence done against Israel; and it is hard to say whic…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. Shall they ... empty their net?--Shall they be allowed without interruption to enjoy the fruits of their violence? therefore--seeing that they attribute all their successes to themselves, and not to Thee. The answer to the prophet’s question, he by inspiration gives himself in the second chapter.