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Habakkuk 1:15 KJV
Habakkuk · chapter 1 · verse 15
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.Habakkuk 1:15 · King James Version
Habakkuk 1:15 in context
13Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
14And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
15They 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.
16Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
17Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- rejoicesâmachprobably to brighten upH8055 →
- gatherʼâçaphto gather for any purposeH622 →
- anglechakkâha hookH2443 →
- catchgârarto drag off roughlyH1641 →
- dragmikmeretha netH4365 →
- netchêremphysical a netH2764 →
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The prophet, having received of the Lord that which he was to deliver to the people, now turns to God, and again addresses himself to him for the ease of his own mind under the burden which he saw. And still he is full of complaints. If he look about him, he sees nothing but violence done by Israel;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-17