Habakkuk 1:10

World English Bible (2000)

Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes 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 At the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Yahweh, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
  • Isa 14:16 : 16 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;
  • Jer 32:24 : 24 Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened; and behold, you see it.
  • Jer 33:4 : 4 For thus says Yahweh, 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 defense] against the mounds and against the sword;
  • Jer 52:4-7 : 4 It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar 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 to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 6 In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe 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 all around;) 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 to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him. 7 They killed 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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  • 11 Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god."

  • 9 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

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    4 He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

    5 Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:

  • 10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.

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    7 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

    8 But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.

  • 40 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

  • 7 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

  • 21 He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

  • 5 On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

  • 6 The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

  • 12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

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    8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

    9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

  • 19 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

  • 14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

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

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    9 who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

    10 They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

  • 13 The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

  • 26 I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

  • 8 For he says, "Aren't all of my princes kings?

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    2 The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

  • 19 The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

  • 14 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:

  • 20 For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off--

  • 16 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  • 5 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.

  • 10 The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

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

  • 7 He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.

  • 41 All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

  • 2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

  • 10 They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

  • 16 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;

  • 34 Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

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

  • 10 So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them, and mocked them.

  • 5 His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

  • 22 Now therefore don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

  • 9 Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.

  • 21 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

  • 13 For he has said, "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

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

  • 7 Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

  • 8 Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

  • 15 and their king will go into captivity, he and his princes together," says Yahweh.

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

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