Habakkuk 2

2I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.H5975H4931H3320H4692H6822H7200H1696H7725H8433

The Righteous Shall Live by His Faith

2And the LORD answered me: "Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.H3068H6030H559H3789H2377H874H3871H7323H71213For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.H2377H4150H7093H6315H3576H4102H2442H935H935H3094"Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.H5315H6075H3474H6662H2421H5305"Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples."H898H3196H3093H1397H5115H7337H5315H7585H4194H7646H622H1471H6908H5971

Woe to the Chaldeans

6Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!"H5375H4912H4426H2420H559H1945H7235H3513H56717Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be spoil for them.H6965H6621H5391H3364H2111H49338Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.H7997H7227H1471H3499H5971H7997H120H1818H2555H776H7151H34279"Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!H1945H1214H7451H1215H1004H7760H7064H4791H5337H3709H745110You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.H3289H1322H1004H7096H7227H5971H2398H531511For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond.H68H2199H7023H3714H6086H603012"Woe to him who builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity!H1945H1129H5892H1818H3559H7151H576613Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?H3068H6635H5971H3021H1767H784H3816H3286H1767H738514For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.H776H4390H3045H3519H3068H4325H3680H322015"Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!H1945H7453H8248H5596H2573H7937H5027H458916You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD's right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory!H7646H7036H3519H8354H6188H3563H3068H3225H5437H7022H351917The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.H2555H3844H3680H7701H929H2865H120H1818H2555H776H7151H342718"What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!H3276H6459H3335H6458H4541H3384H8267H3335H3336H982H6213H483H45719Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a silent stone, Arise! Can this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.H1945H559H6086H6974H1748H68H5782H3384H8610H2091H3701H7307H713020But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him."H3068H6944H1964H776H2013H6440