Habakkuk 1:10

American Standard Version (1901)

Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a derision unto him; he derideth every stronghold; for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it.

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  • 2 Chr 36:6 : 6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
  • 2 Chr 36:10 : 10 And at the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Jehovah, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
  • Isa 14:16 : 16 They that see thee shall gaze at thee, they shall consider thee, [saying], Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
  • Jer 32:24 : 24 Behold, the mounds, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.
  • Jer 33:4 : 4 For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defence] against the mounds and against the sword;
  • Jer 52:4-7 : 4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about. 5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 6 In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about;) and they went toward the Arabah.
  • 2 Kgs 24:12 : 12 and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
  • 2 Kgs 25:6-7 : 6 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him. 7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

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  • 11Then shall he sweep by [as] a wind, and shall pass over, and be guilty, [even] he whose might is his god.

  • 9They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.

  • Ps 2:4-5
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    4He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh: The Lord will have them in derision.

    5Then will he speak unto them in his wrath, And vex them in his sore displeasure:

  • 10This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.

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    7Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, [say they], doth hear?

    8But thou, O Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; Thou wilt have all the nations in derision.

  • 40He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

  • 7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying] ,

  • 21He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.

  • 5On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with scoffers.

  • 6The righteous also shall see [it], and fear, And shall laugh at him, [saying] ,

  • 12And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.

    9They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.

  • 19He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty.

  • 14With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

  • 10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

  • Amos 5:9-10
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    9that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.

    10They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

  • 13The Lord will laugh at him; For he seeth that his day is coming.

  • 26I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

  • 8For he saith, Are not my princes all of them kings?

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    2The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, [saying] ,

  • 19The righteous see it, and are glad; And the innocent laugh them to scorn,

  • 14Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem:

  • 20For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scoffer ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;

  • 16to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  • 5He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.

  • 10He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones.

  • 23Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.

  • 7He scorneth the tumult of the city, Neither heareth he the shoutings of the driver.

  • 41All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors.

  • 2In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

  • 10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

  • 16They that see thee shall gaze at thee, they shall consider thee, [saying], Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

  • 34Surely he scoffeth at the scoffers; But he giveth grace unto the lowly.

  • 18After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; yea, moreover, he shall cause his reproach to turn upon him.

  • 10So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

  • 5His ways are firm at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

  • 22Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth.

  • 9They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; And his enemies shall lick the dust.

  • 21And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:

  • 13For he hath said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down them that sit [on thrones] :

  • 12They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

  • 7Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booty unto them?

  • 8Scoffers set a city in a flame; But wise men turn away wrath.

  • 15and their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith Jehovah.

  • 13Hide them in the dust together; Bind their faces in the hidden [place] .

  • 5Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, thou infamous one [and] full of tumult.