Habakkuk 1:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.

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  • Hab 1:11 : 11 Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.
  • Deut 8:17 : 17 Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.
  • Isa 10:13-15 : 13 For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them; 14 And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound. 15 Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.
  • Isa 37:24 : 24 You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.
  • Ezek 28:3 : 3 See, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret which is deeper than your knowledge:
  • Ezek 29:3 : 3 Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;

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  • Hab 1:14-15
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    87%

    14 He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.

    15 He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.

  • Hab 1:17
    85%

    17 For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.

  • Prov 1:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

    17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

  • Isa 19:8-10
    3 verses
    73%

    8 The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts.

    9 And all the workers in linen thread, and those who make cotton cloth, will be put to shame.

    10 And the makers of twisted thread will be crushed, and those who ... will be sad in heart.

  • Ezek 32:3
    73%

    3 This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net.

  • Luke 5:6
    71%

    6 And when they had done this, they got such a great number of fish that it seemed as if their nets would be broken;

  • Ps 9:15
    71%

    15 The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

  • Hos 4:8
    69%

    8 The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.

  • Deut 33:19
    69%

    19 They will send out the word for the people to come to the mountain, taking there the offerings of righteousness: for the store of the seas will be theirs, and the secret wealth of the sand.

  • Isa 2:8
    69%

    8 Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.

  • Jer 16:16
    69%

    16 See, I will send for great numbers of fishermen, says the Lord, and they will take them like fish in a net; and after that, I will send for numbers of bowmen, and they will go after them, driving them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

  • Job 41:6
    69%

    6 His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.

  • Ps 57:6
    69%

    6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

  • Isa 66:3
    69%

    3 He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;

  • Ezek 29:4
    69%

    4 And I will put hooks in your mouth, and the fish of your streams will be hanging from your skin; and I will make you come up out of your streams, with all the fish of your streams hanging from your skin.

  • Ps 106:36
    68%

    36 And they gave worship to images; which were a danger to them:

  • Hos 4:3
    68%

    3 Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.

  • Isa 57:6
    68%

    6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your heritage; they, even they, are your part: even to them have you made a drink offering and a meal offering. Is it possible for such things to be overlooked by me?

  • Hos 7:12
    68%

    12 When they go, my net will be stretched out over them; I will take them like the birds of heaven, I will give them punishment, I will take them away in the net for their sin.

  • Amos 4:2
    68%

    2 The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and the rest of you with fish-hooks.

  • Jonah 1:15-16
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    68%

    15 So they took Jonah up and put him into the sea: and the sea was no longer angry.

    16 Then great was the men's fear of the Lord; and they made an offering to the Lord and took oaths to him.

  • Ezek 47:10
    68%

    10 And fishermen will take up their places by it: from En-gedi as far as En-eglaim will be a place for the stretching out of nets; the fish will be of every sort, like the fish of the Great Sea, a very great number.

  • Hos 13:2
    68%

    2 And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.

  • Num 11:22
    68%

    22 Are flocks and herds to be put to death for them? or are all the fish in the sea to be got together so that they may be full?

  • 1 Sam 2:14
    68%

    14 This he put into the pot, and everything which came up on the hook the priest took for himself. This they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

  • Prov 1:31
    68%

    31 So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.

  • Ps 73:7
    68%

    7 Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

  • Isa 44:16-17
    2 verses
    68%

    16 With part of it he makes a fire, and on the fire he gets meat cooked and takes a full meal: he makes himself warm, and says, Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire:

    17 And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.

  • Hos 13:6
    68%

    6 When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.

  • Isa 33:23
    68%

    23 Your cords have become loose; they were not able to make strong the support of their sails, the sail was not stretched out: then the blind will take much property, the feeble-footed will make division of the goods of war.

  • Ps 78:30
    68%

    30 But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,

  • Ps 35:7-8
    2 verses
    67%

    7 For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

    8 Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

  • Isa 46:6
    67%

    6 As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.

  • John 21:6
    67%

    6 And he said to them, Let down the net on the right side of the boat and you will get some. So they put it in the water and now they were not able to get it up again because of the great number of fish.

  • Lev 11:9
    67%

    9 These you may have for food of all things living in the water: anything living in the water, in the seas or rivers, which has special parts for swimming and skin formed of thin plates, may be used for food.

  • Ps 17:10
    67%

    10 They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.

  • Isa 44:19
    67%

    19 And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

  • Ezek 20:28
    67%

    28 For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out.

  • John 21:10
    67%

    10 Jesus said to them, Get some of the fish which you have now taken.

  • Hos 4:19
    67%

    19 They are folded in the skirts of the wind; they will be shamed because of their offerings.

  • Jer 16:18
    67%

    18 And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.

  • Isa 5:18
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    18 Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!