Habakkuk 2:7 “Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awake…”

Habakkuk 2:7

Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awaken? Then you will become their prey.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

World English Bible

Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

American Standard Version

Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booty unto them?

Geneva Bible 1599

Shall they not rise vp suddenly, that shall bite thee? and awake, that shall stirre thee? and thou shalt be their praye?

Darby Translation

Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and they awake up that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

Young's Literal Translation

Do not thy usurers instantly rise up, And those shaking thee awake up, And thou hast been for a spoil to them?

Bible in Basic English

Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?

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Cross references

“they”

Proverbs 29:1 Isaiah 13:1–5 Isaiah 13:16–18 Isaiah 21:2–9 Isaiah 41:25 Isaiah 45:1–3

Proverbs 29:1 · BSB

A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.

Isaiah 13:1–5 · BSB

This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:

Isaiah 13:16–18 · BSB

Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

Isaiah 21:2–9 · BSB

A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”

Isaiah 41:25 · BSB

I have raised up one from the north, and he has come— one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay.

Isaiah 45:1–3 · BSB

This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:

“bite”

Ecclesiastes 10:8 Jeremiah 8:17

Ecclesiastes 10:8 · BSB

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Jeremiah 8:17 · BSB

“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.

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

In context

6Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’

8Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you— because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

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