King James Version
Habakkuk 1:17 in the King James Version says “Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?” — study this verse from Habakkuk chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?”
Habakkuk 1:17 · KJV
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. drag: or, flue net
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. plenteous: or, dainty: Heb. fat
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
KJV Study — Public Domain
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner
“their net”
H2764physical (as shutting in) a net (either literally or figuratively); usually a doomed object; abstractly extermination
“continually”
H8548properly, continuance (as indefinite extension); but used only (attributively as adjective) constant (or adverbially, constantly); elliptically the re
“the nations”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
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