Habakkuk 2:9-14

English Standard Version

^9 (A)“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
    ^(B)to ^(C)set his nest on high,
    to be safe from the reach of harm!
¹⁰ You have devised shame for your house
    ^(D)by cutting off many peoples;
    you have forfeited your life.
¹¹ For ^(E)the stone will cry out from the wall,
    and the beam from the woodwork respond.

^12 (F)“Woe to him ^(G)who builds a town with blood
    and founds a city on iniquity!
¹³ Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts
    that ^(H)peoples labor merely for fire,
    and nations weary themselves for nothing?
^14 (I)For the earth will be filled
    with the knowledge of ^(J)the glory of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.