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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.

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ASV

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.

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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כֻּלֹּה֙ku.Lohall of itH3605 →
בְּחַכָּ֣הbe.cha.Kahwith a fish hookH2443 →
הֵֽעֲלָ֔הhe.'a.Lahhe brings upH5927 →
יְגֹרֵ֣הוּye.go.Re.huhe drags away itH1641 →
בְחֶרְמ֔וֹve.cher.Moin net hisH2764 →
וְיַאַסְפֵ֖הוּve.ya.'as.Fe.huand he gathers itH622 →
בְּמִכְמַרְתּ֑וֹbe.mikh.mar.Toin fishing net hisH4365 →
עַל־'al-there-H5921 →
כֵּ֖ןken-foreH3651 →
יִשְׂמַ֥חyis.Machhe rejoicesH8055 →
וְיָגִֽיל׃ve.ya.Giland he may be gladH1523 →

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Amos 4:2The 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.Jeremiah 16:16But 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.Psalms 10:9He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.John 21:6–11He 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.Ezekiel 29:4–5But 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.Jeremiah 50:11“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 25:6For 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,Lamentations 2:15–16All 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?”Ezekiel 26:2“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,’Isaiah 19:8Then 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.Ezekiel 35:15As 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 11:10And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them, and will celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.Matthew 17:27“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.”Luke 5:5–10“Master,” Simon replied, “we have worked hard all night without catching anything. But because You say so, I will let down the nets.”Habakkuk 2:6Will 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?’Job 21:14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.Proverbs 2:14from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

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