Habakkuk 2 (TRV)

From Textus Receptus

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1 I will stand on my watch and set myself upon the tower, and watch to see what He will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am corrected.

2 Then the LORD answered me and said: “Write the vision and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run who reads it.

3 Because, the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

4 “Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him; but the just will live by his faith.

5 “Yes, also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither does he stay at home; who enlarges his desire as hell, and is like death, and cannot be satisfied, he gathers to himself all nations, and heaps up for himself all people.

6 “Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his! How long? And to him who loads himself with thick clay’?

7 Will they not rise up suddenly those who will bite you, and awake who pester you, and you will become their plunder?

8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and because of the violence of the land, the city, and of all who dwell in it.

9 “Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of misfortune!

10 You have given shameful counsel to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul.

11 Because, the stone will shout out from the wall, and the beam from the timber will answer it.

12 “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, and establishes a city by iniquity!

13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people will labor in the actual fire, and the people weary themselves for actual vanity?

14 Because, the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, like the waters cover the sea.

15 “Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor, who puts your bottle to him, and makes him drunk also, that you may look on their nakedness!

16 You are filled with shame for glory. You also drink, and and let your foreskin be uncovered. The cup of the LORD’S right hand will be turned toward you, and shameful spewing will be on your glory.

17 For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you, and the plunder of beasts which made them afraid, because of men’s blood and the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell in it.

18 “What profits the carved image, that the maker of it has carved it, the molded image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of its work should trust in it, to make mute idols?

19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ To mute stone, ‘Arise, it shall teach!’ Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath in the midst of it at all.

20 “But the LORD is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”