Habakkuk 1:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their dragnet; because by them their portion is sumptuous and their food plentiful.

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  • Hab 1:11 : 11 Then his mind changes, and he transgresses; he commits offense, ascribing this power to his god.
  • Deut 8:17 : 17 And you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.
  • Isa 10:13-15 : 13 For he says, By the strength of my hand, I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the boundaries of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have brought down the inhabitants like a valiant man; 14 And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathers eggs that are left, I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped. 15 Shall the ax boast against him who cuts with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who shakes it? As if the rod should shake itself against those who lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not wood.
  • Isa 37:24 : 24 By your servants you have reproached the Lord, and have said, By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees: and I will enter the height of its border, the forest of its Carmel.
  • Ezek 28:3 : 3 Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from you:
  • Ezek 29:3 : 3 Speak, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, which has said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 But you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them, and you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.

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    14You make men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler over them.

    15They take up all of them with a hook, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragnet; therefore they rejoice and are glad.

  • Hab 1:17
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    17Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

  • Prov 1:16-17
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    16For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

    17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

  • Isa 19:8-10
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    8The fishermen also shall mourn, and all who cast hooks into the brooks shall lament, and those who spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

    9Moreover, those who work in fine flax and those who weave networks shall be confounded.

    10They shall be broken in their purposes, all who make sluices and ponds for fish.

  • Ezek 32:3
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    3Thus says the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread my net over you with a company of many people; and they shall bring you up in my net.

  • Luke 5:6
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    6And when they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net began to break.

  • Ps 9:15
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    15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

  • Hos 4:8
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    8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their hearts on their iniquity.

  • Deut 33:19
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    19They shall call the people to the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall partake of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hidden in the sand.

  • Isa 2:8
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    8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, what their own fingers have made.

  • Jer 16:16
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    16Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says the LORD, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

  • Job 41:6
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    6Will the companions make a banquet of him? Will they divide him among the merchants?

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    6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me; into the midst of it they have fallen themselves. Selah.

  • Isa 66:3
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    3He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he broke a dog's neck; he that offers an offering, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.

  • Ezek 29:4
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    4But I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales, and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, and all the fish of your rivers shall stick to your scales.

  • Ps 106:36
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    36And they served their idols, which were a snare to them.

  • Hos 4:3
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    3Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone that dwells therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; yes, the fish of the sea also shall be taken away.

  • Isa 57:6
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    6Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they are your lot. To them you have poured a drink offering, you have offered a meat offering. Should I find comfort in these?

  • Hos 7:12
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    12When they go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down like the birds of the sky; I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

  • Amos 4:2
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    2The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness, that, behold, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your descendants with fishhooks.

  • Jonah 1:15-16
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    15So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.

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  • Hos 13:2
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    2And now they sin more and more, and have made molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

  • Num 11:22
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    22Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

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    14And he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot; all that the fork brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

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    23Your tackle is loosed; they could not strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail; then the prey of great plunder is divided, the lame take the prey.

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    7For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit, which they have dug without cause for my soul.

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  • John 21:6
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    19And none considers in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stump of a tree?

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