"Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?"
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He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.
Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to slay the nations continually?
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
Doth he therefore empty his net, And continually to slay nations spare not?