Habakkuk 2:2-8
English Standard Version
The Righteous Shall Live by His Faith
2 And the Lord answered me:
(A)“Write the vision;
make it plain on tablets,
so he may run who reads it.
3 For still (B)the vision awaits its appointed time;
it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow, (C)wait for it;
(D)it will surely come; it will not delay.
4 “Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,
but (E)the righteous shall live by his faith.[a]
5 “Moreover, wine[b] is (F)a traitor,
an arrogant man who is never at rest.[c]
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
like death (G)he has never enough.
(H)He gathers for himself all nations
and collects as his own all peoples.”
Woe to the Chaldeans
6 Shall not all these (I)take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,
(J)“Woe to him (K)who heaps up what is not his own—
for (L)how long?—
and (M)loads himself with pledges!”
7 (N)Will not your debtors suddenly arise,
and those awake who will make you tremble?
Then you will be spoil for them.
8 (O)Because you have plundered many nations,
all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,
(P)for the blood of man and (Q)violence to the earth,
to cities and all who dwell in them.
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 2:4 Or faithfulness
- Habakkuk 2:5 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll wealth
- Habakkuk 2:5 The meaning of the Hebrew of these two lines is uncertain
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