Habakkuk 2:1-7

New King James Version

The Just Shall Live by Faith

2 I will ^(A)stand my watch
And set myself on the rampart,
And watch to see what He will say to me,
And what I will answer when I am corrected.

The Just Live by Faith

²Then the Lord answered me and said:

^(B)“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
³For ^(C)the vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will ^(D)not lie.
Though it tarries, ^(E)wait for it;
Because it will ^(F)surely come,
It will not tarry.

⁴“Behold the proud,
His soul is not upright in him;
But the ^(G)just shall live by his faith.

Woe to the Wicked

⁵“Indeed, because he transgresses by wine,
He is a proud man,
And he does not stay at home.
Because he ^(H)enlarges his desire as ^[a]hell,
And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied,
He gathers to himself all nations
And heaps up for himself all peoples.

⁶“Will not all these ^(I)take up a proverb against him,
And a taunting riddle against him, and say,
‘Woe to him who increases
What is not his—how long?
And to him who loads himself with ^[b]many pledges’?
⁷Will not ^[c]your creditors rise up suddenly?
Will they not awaken who oppress you?
And you will become their booty.