Abacuc 1:15

La Riveduta Bibbia

Il Caldeo li trae tutti su con l’amo, li piglia nella sua rete, li raccoglie nel suo giacchio; perciò si rallegra ed esulta.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Egli li prende tutti allamo, li cattura con la sua rete e li raccoglie con la sua rete da pesca; quindi si rallegra ed esulta.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Egli li ha tutti tratti fuori con l’amo, egli li ha accolti nel suo giacchio, e li ha radunati nella sua rete: Perciò, egli si rallegra, e trionfa.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

take: Jeremiah 16:16, Ezekiel 29:4, Ezekiel 29:5, Amos 4:2, Matthew 17:27

they catch: Psalms 10:9, Luke 5:5-10, John 21:6-11

drag: or, flue-net

therefore: Jeremiah 50:11, Lamentations 2:15, Lamentations 2:16, Ezekiel 25:6, Ezekiel 26:2, Ezekiel 35:15, Revelation 11:10

Reciprocal: Job 21:7 - Wherefore Job 21:14 - they say Proverbs 2:14 - rejoice Proverbs 12:12 - desireth Isaiah 19:8 - General Jeremiah 5:26 - lay wait Daniel 4:30 - Is not Hosea 5:1 - ye have Amos 6:13 - which Micah 7:2 - hunt Habakkuk 2:6 - that increaseth Romans 1:21 - they glorified 1 Timothy 6:17 - that they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They take up all of them with the angle,.... The prophet continues the metaphor of fishing, and observes the different ways of taking fish; which is to be applied to the case he is speaking of: as fishermen take all they can with their angles, so "they" or "he", for it is in the singular number, Nebuchadnezzar and his army, take up all out of the sea of the world; are ambitious of getting all kingdoms and nations of the world under their power and dominion; particularly all Judea, and all the inhabitants of it, good and bad, without any distinction; for all were fish which came to their net: this may design the artful and alluring methods they first made use of to get the people into their hands, by making covenants with them, and drawing them into making of presents, and paying of tribute:

they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag; with the angle the fisherman catches fish one by one, but with the net great numbers; and what he misses by throwing the net, he gets by using the drag; all which may be expressive of the ways and methods used by the king of Babylon and his army, both in the times of Jeconiah, and of Zedekiah; under the former he used the net, and carried off large numbers, and with them the royal family and great substance, but left many behind; under the latter he came and swept away all, drained the land of its riches and its inhabitants:

therefore they rejoice and are glad; as fishermen do when they have good sport; so these people rejoiced in their own success, and in the calamities of their neighbours.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They take up all of them - (literally “he taketh up all of it”) the whole race as though it were one,

With an angle; they catch them - literally, he sweepeth it away

In their (his) net - One fisherman is singled out who partly by wiles (as by the bait of “an angle”), partly by violence (the net or drag) sweeps away and gathers as his own the whole kind. Nebuchadnezzar and the Chaldaeans are herein a faint image of Satan, who casts out his baits and his nets in the stormy sea of this life, taking some by individual craft, sweeping others in whole masses, to do evil; and whoso hath no ruler, and will not have Christ to reign over him Luke 19:4, he allures, hurries, drags away as his prey. Jerome: “Adam clave to his hook, and he drew him forth out of Paradise with his net; and covered him with his drags, his varied and manifold deceits and guiles. And “by one many became sinners,” and in Adam we ‘all died,’ and all saints afterward were with him alike cast out of Paradise. And because he deceived the first man, he ceaseth not daily to slay the whole human race.”