Habakkuk 2:5-20

Legacy Standard Bible

⁵ And indeed, ^(A)wine betrays the ^(B)haughty man
So that he does not ^(C)stay at home.
He ^(D)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 ^(E)lift up a taunt-song against him,
Even satire and riddles against him
And say, ‘^(F)Woe to him who increases what is not his—
For how long—
And makes himself ^[a]rich with loans?’
⁷ Will not ^[b]your creditors ^(G)rise up suddenly,
And those who make you tremble awaken?
Indeed, you will become spoil for them.
⁸ Because you have ^(H)taken many nations as spoil,
All that is left of the peoples will take you as spoil—
Because of human bloodshed and violence ^[c]done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.

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

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

¹⁵ “Woe to you who make ^[e]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 ^(Q)drink and ^[f]expose your own nakedness.
The ^(R)cup in Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you,
And ^(S)utter disgrace will come upon your glory.
¹⁷ For the ^(T)violence ^[g]done to Lebanon will cover you,
And the devastation of its beasts ^[h]by which you terrified them,
^(U)Because of human bloodshed and ^(V)violence ^[i]done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.

¹⁸ “What ^(W)profit is the graven image when its maker has engraved it,
Or a molten image, a ^(X)teacher of ^[j]lies?
For its maker ^(Y)trusts in his own making
When he fashions speechless idols.
¹⁹ Woe to him who ^(Z)says to a piece of wood, ‘^(AA)Awake!’
To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
And that is your teacher?
Behold, it is overlaid with ^(AB)gold and silver,
And there is ^(AC)no breath at all inside it.
²⁰ But ^(AD)Yahweh is in His holy temple.
^[k]Let all the earth ^(AE)be silent before Him.”