| Hab. 2:1 |
I will stand at my watch / And station myself on the fortress, / And I will watch to see what He will speak to me / And what I will reply concerning my complaint. |
| Hab. 2:2 |
Then Jehovah answered and said, / Write the vision, and render [it] plainly upon tablets, / That [even] he who runs by may read it. |
| Hab. 2:3 |
For the vision is yet for the appointed time, / And it hastens toward the end and will not lie. / Though it tarries, wait for it; / For it will surely come; it will not delay. |
| Hab. 2:4 |
See, he who is puffed up, his soul is not upright within him, / But the righteous one will live by his faith. |
| Hab. 2:5 |
Furthermore [his] wine is treacherous: / A boasting man, he does not abide at home, / He who enlarges his appetite like Sheol, / And is like death and cannot be satisfied, / But gathers to himself all the nations / And collects for himself all the peoples. |
| Hab. 2:6 |
Will not all of these take up a parable against him, / Indeed a mocking song [and] a riddle against him, and say, / Woe to him who increases what is not his (For how long?) / And who loads himself with the burden of pledges? |
| Hab. 2:7 |
Will not those who bite you rise up suddenly, / And those who shake you awake, / And you will become booty to them? |
| Hab. 2:8 |
Because you have plundered many nations; / All the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, / Because of the bloodshed of men and the violence [done] to the land, / To the city, and to all the inhabitants in it. |
| Hab. 2:9 |
Woe to him who by violence takes evil gain for his house, / So as to place his nest on high / That he may be delivered from the hand of evil! |
| Hab. 2:10 |
You have devised shame against your own house / By cutting off many peoples, / And have sinned against your own soul. |
| Hab. 2:11 |
For the stone will cry out from the wall, / And the rafter will answer from the timber. |
| Hab. 2:12 |
Woe to him who builds a city by bloodshed / And establishes a town by iniquity! |
| Hab. 2:13 |
Indeed is it not of Jehovah of hosts / That the peoples toil for the fire / And the nations weary themselves for vanity? |
| Hab. 2:14 |
For the earth will be filled / With the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah / As water covers the sea. |
| Hab. 2:15 |
Woe to him who makes his neighbor drink, / Adding in his poison, / And also making [him] drunk / In order to look at their nakedness! |
| Hab. 2:16 |
You are sated with shame, not glory. / You also, drink and be shown to be uncircumcised! / The cup of Jehovah's right hand will come around to you, / And disgrace will be upon your glory. |
| Hab. 2:17 |
For the violence [done] to Lebanon will cover you, / As well as the destruction of the beasts which frightened them, / Because of the bloodshed of men and the violence [done] to the land, / To the city, and to all the inhabitants in it. |
| Hab. 2:18 |
What profit is the graven idol that its maker should engrave it, / [Or] the molten idol, even the teacher of lies, / That he who forms its form depends on it / To make dumb idols? |
| Hab. 2:19 |
Woe to him who says to wood, Awake! / [And,] Arise! to silent stone. / Will it teach [him?] / Behold, it is set in gold and silver, / And there is no breath at all within it. |
| Hab. 2:20 |
But Jehovah is in His holy temple: / Be silent before Him, all the earth! |