Habakkuk 2  Legacy Standard Bible

⁴ “Behold, as for the ^(H)proud one,
His soul is not right within him;
But the ^(I)righteous will live by his ^[e]faith.
⁵ And indeed, ^(J)wine betrays the ^(K)haughty man
So that he does not ^(L)stay at home.
He ^(M)enlarges his appetite like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He also gathers to himself all nations
And assembles to himself all peoples.

⁶ “Will not all of these ^(N)lift up a taunt-song against him,
Even satire and riddles against him
And say, ‘^(O)Woe to him who increases what is not his—
For how long—
And makes himself ^[f]rich with loans?’
⁷ Will not ^[g]your creditors ^(P)rise up suddenly,
And those who make you tremble awaken?
Indeed, you will become spoil for them.
⁸ Because you have ^(Q)taken many nations as spoil,
All that is left of the peoples will take you as spoil—
Because of human bloodshed and violence ^[h]done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.

⁹ “Woe to him who is greedy for ^(R)evil gain for his house
To ^(S)put his nest on high,
To be delivered from the hand of evil!
¹⁰ You have counseled a ^(T)shameful thing for your house
By cutting off many peoples;
So you are ^(U)sinning against your own soul.
¹¹ Surely the ^(V)stone will cry out from the wall,
And the rafter will answer it from the ^[i]framework.

¹² “Woe to him who ^(W)builds a city with bloodshed
And founds a town with injustice!
¹³ Is it not, behold, from Yahweh of hosts
That peoples ^(X)toil for fire,
And nations grow weary for nothing?
¹⁴ For the earth will be ^(Y)filled
With the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh,
As the waters cover the sea.

¹⁵ “Woe to you who make ^[j]your neighbors drink,
Who mix in your venom even to make them drunk
So as to look on their nakedness!
¹⁶ You will be filled with disgrace rather than glory.
Now you yourself ^(Z)drink and ^[k]expose your own nakedness.
The ^(AA)cup in Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you,
And ^(AB)utter disgrace will come upon your glory.
¹⁷ For the ^(AC)violence ^[l]done to Lebanon will cover you,
And the devastation of its beasts ^[m]by which you terrified them,
^(AD)Because of human bloodshed and ^(AE)violence ^[n]done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.

¹⁸ “What ^(AF)profit is the graven image when its maker has engraved it,
Or a molten image, a ^(AG)teacher of ^[o]lies?
For its maker ^(AH)trusts in his own making
When he fashions speechless idols.
¹⁹ Woe to him who ^(AI)says to a piece of wood, ‘^(AJ)Awake!’
To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
And that is your teacher?
Behold, it is overlaid with ^(AK)gold and silver,
And there is ^(AL)no breath at all inside it.
²⁰ But ^(AM)Yahweh is in His holy temple.
^[p]Let all the earth ^(AN)be silent before Him.”