◄ Habakkuk 1:7 ►
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Good News Translation
They spread fear and terror, and in their pride they are a law to themselves.

New Revised Standard Version
Dread and fearsome are they; their justice and dignity proceed from themselves.

Contemporary English Version
How fearsome and frightening. Their only laws and rules are the ones they make up.

New American Bible
They are terrifying and dreadful; their right and their exalted position are of their own making.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They are dreadful, and terrible: from themselves shall their judgment, and their burden proceed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They are dreadful, and terrible: from themselves shall their judgment, and their burden proceed.

their judgment, etc.

Jeremiah 39:5-9 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them: and they took Sedecias in the plain of the desert of Jericho, and when they had taken him, they brought him to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Reblatha, which is in the land of Emath: and he gave judgment upon him. . . .

Jeremiah 52:9-11,25-27 And when they had taken the king, they carried him to the king of Babylon to Reblatha, which is in the land of Emath: and he gave judgment upon him. . . .

Deuteronomy 5:19,27 And thou shalt not steal. . . .

Context
The LORD's Answer
…6For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift nation, marching upon the breadth of the earth, to possess the dwelling places that are not their own. 7They are dreadful, and terrible: from themselves shall their judgment, and their burden proceed.8Their horses are lighter than leopards, and swifter than evening wolves; and their horsemen shall be spread abroad: for their horsemen shall come from afar, they shall fly as an eagle that maketh haste to eat.…
Cross References
Isaiah 18:2
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in pieces: to a terrible people, after which there is no other: to a nation expecting and trodden underfoot, whose land the rivers have spoiled.

Isaiah 18:7
At that time shall a present be brought to the Lord of hosts, from a people rent and torn in pieces: from a terrible people, after which there hath been no other: from a nation expecting, expecting and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, to mount Sion.

Jeremiah 39:5
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them: and they took Sedecias in the plain of the desert of Jericho, and when they had taken him, they brought him to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Reblatha, which is in the land of Emath: and he gave judgment upon him.

Daniel 2:31
Thou, O king, sawest, and behold there was as it were a great statue: this statue, which was great and high, tall of stature, stood before thee, and the look thereof was terrible.

Habakkuk 1:6
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