Habakkuk 2:5-11

New King James Version

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 ^(A)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 ^(B)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.
⁸^(C)Because you have plundered many nations,
All the remnant of the people shall plunder you,
Because of men’s ^[d]blood
And the violence of the land and the city,
And of all who dwell in it.

⁹“Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house,
That he may ^(D)set his nest on high,
That he may be delivered from the ^[e]power of disaster!
¹⁰You give shameful counsel to your house,
Cutting off many peoples,
And sin against your soul.
¹¹For the stone will cry out from the wall,
And the beam from the timbers will answer it.