Habakkuk 1:11
Good News Translation
Then they sweep on like the wind and are gone, these men whose power is their god."

New Revised Standard Version
Then they sweep by like the wind; they transgress and become guilty; their own might is their god!

Contemporary English Version
Then suddenly they disappear like a gust of wind--those sinful people who worship their own strength.

New American Bible
Then they sweep through like the wind and vanish— they make their own strength their god!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then shall his spirit be changed, and he shall pass, and fall: this is his strength of his god.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then shall his spirit be changed, and he shall pass, and fall: this is his strength of his god.

shall his.

Daniel 4:30-34 The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor, and he was driven away from among men, and did eat grass, like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like birds' claws. . . .

imputing.

Daniel 5:3,4,20 Then were the golden and silver vessels brought, which he had brought away out of the temple that was in Jerusalem: and the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. . . .

Context
The LORD's Answer
10And their prince shall triumph over kings, and princes shall be his laughingstock: and he shall laugh at every strong hold, and shall cast up a mount, and shall take it. 11Then shall his spirit be changed, and he shall pass, and fall: this is his strength of his god.
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:3
Israel is holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his increase: all they that devour him offend: evils shall come upon them, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 4:11
At that time it shall be said to this people, and to Jerusalem: A burning wind is in the ways that are in the desert of the way of the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse.

Jeremiah 4:12
A full wind from these places shall come to me: and now I will speak my judgments with them.

Daniel 4:30
The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor, and he was driven away from among men, and did eat grass, like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like birds' claws.

Habakkuk 1:16
Therefore will he offer victims to his drag, and he will sacrifice to his net: because through them his portion is made fat, and his meat dainty.

Habakkuk 1:10
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