Jubilee2000 - Habakkuk - 2

2:1  I will stand upon my watch and affirm my foot upon the fortress and will watch to see what he will say in me and what I shall answer to my question.

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; wait for it.

2:4  Behold, he whose soul is not upright in him [will] become filled with pride, but the just in his faith shall live.

2:5  Even more than he who is given over to wine, [the] transposer, the proud man, shall not remain, who enlarges his desire as Sheol and [is] as death and cannot be satisfied, but gathered unto him all the Gentiles and heaps unto him all the peoples;

2:6  Shall not all these take up a parable against him and a taunting enigma against him and say, Woe to him that multiplied [that which was] not his! And [for] how long would he pile thick clay upon himself?

2:7  Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee and awake those that shall take thy place, and thou shalt be for a prey unto them?

2:8  Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the other peoples shall spoil thee because of human blood and [for] the robberies of the land, of the cities, and of all that dwell therein.

2:9  Woe to him that covets illgotten gain by violence for his house that he may set his nest on high, that he may escape from the power of evil!

2:10  Thou hast taken shameful counsel for thy house by cutting off many peoples and hast committed a sin against thy life.

2:11  For the stone shall cry out from the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

2:12  Woe to him that builds the city with blood and founds the village with iniquity!

2:13  [Is] this not of the LORD of the hosts? Therefore the peoples shall labour for the fire, and the Gentiles shall weary themselves in vain.

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 neighbours drink, that puts thy bottle to [them], and makes [them] drunken also, that thou may look on their nakedness!

2:16  Thou hast filled thyself with dishonour instead of honour; drink thou also, and thy foreskin shall be uncovered; the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful vomit [shall fall] upon thy glory.

2:17  For the violence of Lebanon shall fall upon thee and the destruction of the [wild] beasts shall break thee, because of the human blood, and of the robbery of the land, of the cities, and of all that dwell therein.

2:18  Of what profit [is] the graven image that its maker has sculpted; the molten image, that teaches lies, so that in making dumb images the maker trusts in his work?

2:19  Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! Can it ever teach? Behold, it [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all within it.

2:20  But the LORD [is] in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.: