Habakkuk 2:8 BSB — MannaFest

Habakkuk 2:8

Because 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.

BSB

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ASV

Because thou hast plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder thee, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.

KJV

Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Habakkuk (420)

(Verse 5 and following) And just as wine deceives a drinker, so too will the proud man be, and he will not be adorned, who has expanded his soul like Sheol and is like death, and he will not be satisfied. And he will gather all nations to himself, and he will heap all peoples to himself. Will not all these take up a proverb against him and a taunting riddle about him, and say: Woe to him who multiplies what is not his own! How long will he heap up thick clay against himself?

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Because (or For). The prophet assigns the reason of the woes he had just pronounced. “Thou (emphatic), thou hast spoiled many nations, all the resonant of the people shall spoil thee.” So Isaiah Isa 33:1, “When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.” Boundless as his conquests were, each remaining people, tribe, or family shall be his foe.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי	ki	for	H3588 →
אַתָּ֤ה	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
שַׁלּ֙וֹתָ֙	sha.Lo.ta	you have plundered	H7997 →
גּוֹיִ֣ם	go.Yim	nations	H1471 →
רַבִּ֔ים	ra.Bim	many	H7227 →
יְשָׁלּ֖וּךָ	ye.sha.Lu.kha	they will plunder you	H7997 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
יֶ֣תֶר	Ye.ter	[the] rest of	H3499 →
עַמִּ֑ים	'a.Mim	[the] peoples	H5971 →
מִדְּמֵ֤י	mi.de.Mei	from [the] blood<s> of	H1818 →
אָדָם֙	'a.Dam	humankind	H120 →
וַחֲמַס־	va.cha.mas-	and [the] violence of	H2555 →
אֶ֔רֶץ	'E.retz	[the] land of	H776 →
קִרְיָ֖ה	kir.Yah	[the] town	H7151 →
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and all	H3605 →
יֹ֥שְׁבֵי	Yo.she.vei	[those who] dwell	H3427 →
בָֽהּ׃ פ	Vah	in it

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 33:1
Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.
leads to
- Matthew 7:2
  For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Through
Jeremiah 51:44
I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:34
  “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies…
- Jeremiah 51:58
  This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will…
- Jeremiah 50:2
  “Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced,…
Through
Jeremiah 50:28
Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.
leads to
- Lamentations 1:10
  The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
- Isaiah 48:20
  Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”
- Jeremiah 50:15
  Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD,…
Through
Habakkuk 2:17
For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
leads to
- Psalms 55:23
  But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Habakkuk

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Habakkuk