Habakkuk Chapter 1 verse 17 Holy Bible
Shall he therefore empty his net, and spare not to slay the nations continually?
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For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.
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Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to slay the nations continually?
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Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
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Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
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Doth he therefore empty his net, And continually to slay nations spare not?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - Shall they therefore empty their net? Because they have had this career of rapine and conquest, shall God allow them to continue it? Shall they be permitted to be continually emptying their net in order to fill it again? The idea is that they carried off their booty and captives and secured them in their own territory, and then set out on new expeditions to acquire fresh plunder. The question is answered in the next chapter, where the judgment on the Chaldeans is pronounced. And not spare continually to slay the nations? And cease not to send forth his armies and to found his empire in the blood of conquered nations. The Septuagint and Vulgate have no interrogation, the assertion being made by way of expostulation.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) Shall they therefore empty their net. . . .--Literally, Shall he therefore empty his net? i.e., Shall this voracious Chaldaean plunderer be allowed to consume his prey, and cast in his emptied net again and again?
