Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their dragnet; because by them their portion is luxurious, and their food plentiful.
All Commentaries on Habakkuk 1:16 Go To Habakkuk 1
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Drag, adoring his own arms and prowess, (Sanct.) like Mezentius and Capaneus:
Dextra mihi Deus, (Virgil, Æneid x.) Te voco, te solum, superum contempt or, adoro. (Stat. x.)
Guevare thinks fishes were adored, as they were among the Syrians. Nabuchodonosor attributed all to his own genius, or to Bel, whose statue he set up, Daniel iii. (Calmet)
Victorious nations thus honour themselves and not God.
