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HABAKKUK ยท Chapter 2
2:1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will
watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am
reproved.
2:2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make
it plain upon tables, that he may run that reads it.
2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it
shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will
surely come, it will not tarry.
2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but
the just shall live by his faith.
2:5 Yea also, because he trangresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither
keeps at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot
be satisfied, but gathers unto him all nations, and heaps unto him all
people:
2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting
proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increases that which is not
his! how long? and to him that loads himself with thick clay!
2:7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite you, and awake
that shall vex you, and you shall be for booties unto them?
2:8 Because you have spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people
shall spoil you; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land,
of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
2:9 Woe to him that covers an evil covetousness to his house, that
he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of
evil!
2:10 You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people,
and have sinned against your soul.
2:11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the
timber shall answer it.
2:12 Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city
by iniquity!
2:13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour
in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
2:14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory
of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
2:15 Woe unto him that gives his neighbour drink, that put your bottle
to him, and make him drunken also, that you may look on their nakedness!
2:16 You are filled with shame for glory: drink you also, and let your
foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand shall be turned
unto you, and shameful spewing shall be on your glory.
2:17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you, and the spoil of
beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence
of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
2:18 What profits the graven image that the maker thereof has graven
it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work
trusts therein, to make dumb idols?
2:19 Woe unto him that says to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone,
Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and
there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
2:20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence
before him.
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