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Atomic Bible
Habakkuk 1:15
The foe pulls all of them up with a hook;
from Habakkuk’s Second Complaint, Habakkuk 1:12-17
What it says

The foe pulls people up with hooks and nets, rejoicing in the catch.

What it is doing

This verse depicts imperial conquest as a merciless harvest of human lives.

In context

12Are You not from everlasting, 13Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, 14You have made men like the fish of the sea, 15The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; 16Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet 17Will he, therefore, empty his net