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Habakkuk 1:10

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1:10They mock kings

and laugh at rulers.

They laugh at every fortified city;

they build siege ramps32 and capture them.

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Footnotes

  1. 32 Heb “they heap up dirt.” This is a reference to the piling up of earthen ramps in the process of laying siege to a fortified city.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

At kings they scoff,

and at rulers they laugh.

They laugh at every fortress,

for they pile up earth and take it.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They mock kings

and scoff at rulers.

They laugh at all fortified cities;

by building earthen ramps they capture them.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They mock kings,

and rulers are a joke to them.

They laugh at every fortress

and build siege ramps to capture it.

NLTNew Living Translation

They scoff at kings and princes

and scorn all their fortresses.

They simply pile ramps of earth

against their walls and capture them!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And they themselves scoff at kings

and rulers are a joke to them.

They laugh at every fortification,

and they heap up earth and take it.

KJV 1900King James Version

And they shall scoff at the kings,

And the princes shall be a scorn unto them:

They shall deride every strong hold;

For they shall heap dust, and take it.