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Won’t your creditors revolt unexpectedly?
    Won’t those who make you tremble wake up?
        As a result, you’ll become their prey!
Because you plundered many nations,
    all of their remnants will plunder you.
Human blood has been shed,[a]
    and violence has been done to[b] the land,
        to the city, and to all who live in it.”

Judgment on Those who Think They are Safe

“Woe to the one who amasses profit upon unjust profit
    in order to establish his household,
so he can establish a secure place[c] on the heights
    and escape from the power of evil.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:8 The Heb. lacks has been shed
  2. Habakkuk 2:8 Lit. violence of
  3. Habakkuk 2:9 Lit. establish his nest