Parallel Verses
Amplified
“The Chaldeans are dreaded and feared;
Their justice and authority originate with themselves and are defined only by their decree.
New American Standard Bible
Their
King James Version
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
Holman Bible
their views of justice and sovereignty
stem from themselves.
International Standard Version
They are terrible and fearsome; their brand of justice and sense of honor derive only from themselves!
A Conservative Version
They are fearful and dreadful. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
American Standard Version
They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
Bible in Basic English
They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.
Darby Translation
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
Julia Smith Translation
He terrible and dreadful: his judgment and his elevation shall come forth from himself,
King James 2000
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed from themselves.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They [are] dreadful and awesome; their justice and their dignity proceed from themselves.
Modern King James verseion
He is terrible and fearful; his judgment and his majesty comes forth from Himself.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A grim and boisterous people is it, these shall sit in judgment and punish.
NET Bible
They are frightening and terrifying; they decide for themselves what is right.
New Heart English Bible
They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
The Emphasized Bible
Awful and fearful, is he, - from himself, his decision and his uprising, proceed.
Webster
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed from themselves.
World English Bible
They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
Youngs Literal Translation
Terrible and fearful it is, From itself its judgment and its excellency go forth.
Themes
Babylon » As a power, was » Cruel and destructive
Babylon » Armies of, described
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 1:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Answer To Habakkuk
6
“For behold, I am raising up the
That fierce and impetuous nation
Who march throughout the earth
To take possession of dwelling places that do not belong to them.
“The Chaldeans are dreaded and feared;
Their justice and authority originate with themselves and are defined only by their decree.
“Their horses are swifter than leopards
And keener than [hungry] wolves in the evening,
Their horsemen come galloping,
Their horsemen come from far away;
They fly like an eagle swooping down to devour.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 39:5-9
But the Chaldean (Babylonian) army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. When they had seized him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the [Aramean] land of Hamath, where he passed sentence on him.
Deuteronomy 5:19
‘You shall not steal.
Deuteronomy 5:27
You, Moses, go near and listen to everything that the Lord our God says; then speak to us everything that the Lord our God speaks to you, and we will listen and do it.’
Isaiah 18:7
At that time a gift of homage will be brought to the Lord of hosts
From a people tall and smooth (clean shaven),
From a people feared far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation,
Whose land the rivers divide—
To the place [of worship] of the
Jeremiah 52:9-11
Then they seized the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the [Syrian] land of Hamath [on the northern border of Israel], where he pronounced sentence on him.
Jeremiah 52:25-27
He also took out of the city one official who was overseer of the soldiers, and seven of the king’s advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men who were still in the city.