and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
⛓ Read Habakkuk 1 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Habakkuk likens people gathered by the conqueror to fish caught in a net and hauled up. The fishers-of-men motif may invert this image of catching for destruction into one of catching for life. Faint and contested; offered for the recurrence of the fish-net-people complex in the prophets.
Low confidenceHumanity caught 'like fish of the sea... they bring them up with a net' — recurrent OT trope of people-as-fish-in-nets resonant with the fishing-for-men commission. Contested.
Low confidence