Habakkuk 1:15 “The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragn…”

Habakkuk 1:15

The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

American Standard Version

He taketh up all of them with the angle, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them in his drag: therefore he rejoiceth and is glad.

Geneva Bible 1599

They take vp all with the angle: they catch it in their net, and gather it in their yarne, whereof they reioyce and are glad.

Darby Translation

He taketh up all of them with the hook, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them into his drag; therefore he rejoiceth and is glad:

Young's Literal Translation

Each of them with a hook he hath brought up, He doth catch it in his net, and gathereth it in his drag, Therefore he doth joy and rejoice.

Bible in Basic English

He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.

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Cross references

“take”

Jeremiah 16:16 Amos 4:2 Matthew 17:27 Ezekiel 29:4 Ezekiel 29:5

Jeremiah 16:16 · BSB

But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks…

Amos 4:2 · BSB

The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

Matthew 17:27 · BSB

“But so that we may not offend them, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take the first fish you catch. When you open its mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for My tax and yours.”

Ezekiel 29:4 · BSB

But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of your streams will cling to your scales.

Ezekiel 29:5 · BSB

I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds o…

“they catch”

Psalm 10:9 John 21:6–11 Luke 5:5–10

Psalm 10:9 · BSB

He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

John 21:6–11 · BSB

He told them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it there, and they were unable to haul it in because of the great number of fish.

Luke 5:5–10 · BSB

“Master,” Simon replied, “we have worked hard all night without catching anything. But because You say so, I will let down the nets.”

“therefore”

Jeremiah 50:11 Ezekiel 25:6 Ezekiel 26:2 Ezekiel 35:15 Revelation 11:10 Lamentations 2:15

Jeremiah 50:11 · BSB

“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph— you who plunder My inheritance— because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,

Ezekiel 25:6 · BSB

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you clapped your hands and stomped your feet and rejoiced over the land of Israel with a heart full of contempt,

Ezekiel 26:2 · BSB

“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’

Ezekiel 35:15 · BSB

As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

Revelation 11:10 · BSB

And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.

Lamentations 2:15 · BSB

All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

Also

Isaiah 19:8

Isaiah 19:8 · BSB

Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.

16Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.

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