Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Wo! to him giving his neighbor drink, pouring out thy leathern bottle, and also to be drunken so as to look upon their nakedness.
New American Standard Bible
Who mix in your venom even to make them drunk
So as to look on their nakedness!
King James Version
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
Holman Bible
pouring out your wrath
and even making them drunk,
in order to look at their nakedness!
International Standard Version
"Woe to the one who supplies his neighbor with a drink! You are forcing your bottle on him, making him drunk so you can see them naked.
A Conservative Version
Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who adds thy venom, and also makes him drunken, that thou may look on their nakedness!
American Standard Version
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, to thee that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
Amplified
“Woe (judgment is coming) to you who make your neighbors drink,
Who mix in your venom to make them drunk
So that you may look at their nakedness!
Bible in Basic English
A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!
Darby Translation
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that pourest out thy flask, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
King James 2000
Woe unto him that gives his neighbor drink, that presses your wineskin to him, and makes him drunk also, that you may look on his nakedness!
Lexham Expanded Bible
Woe to [him who] gives a drink to his neighbors, pouring out your wrath and also making [them] drunk in order to see their nakedness!
Modern King James verseion
Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring out your wineskin, and also making him drunk, that you may look on their nakedness!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, to get him wrathful displeasure for his drunkenness: that he may see his privities.
NET Bible
"You who force your neighbor to drink wine are as good as dead -- you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger, so you can look at their genitals.
New Heart English Bible
"Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies.
The Emphasized Bible
Alas! for him who causeth his neighbour to drink, from the goblet of thy fury, and also, making him drunk, - to the end thou mayest gloat over their parts of shame.
Webster
Woe to him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
World English Bible
"Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
Youngs Literal Translation
Woe to him who is giving drink to his neighbour, Pouring out thy bottle, and also making drunk, In order to look on their nakedness.
Themes
Bottles » Ancients often drank from
Drunkenness » Those who encourage
Glory » Whose glory becomes shame
Iniquity » Those that build a city with iniquity
Profit » Those that profit from violence
Shame » Whose glory becomes shame
Topics
Interlinear
Rea`
Shakar
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 2:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Doom On The Unrighteous
14 For the earth shall be filled to know the glory of Jehovah as the waters shall cover over the sea? 15 Wo! to him giving his neighbor drink, pouring out thy leathern bottle, and also to be drunken so as to look upon their nakedness. 16 Thou wert satisfied with dishonor rather than honor: drink thou also and be uncircumcised: the cup of the right hand of Jehovah shall turn upon thee, and ignominy upon thy glory.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 9:22
And Ham the father of Canaan will see the nakedness of his father, and he will declare to his two brethren without
Jeremiah 51:7
Babel a cup of gold in the hand of Jehovah, making all the earth drunk: the nations drank from her wine; for this the nations will be foolish.
Genesis 19:32-35
Come, we will give to our father wine to drink, and we will lie down with him, and we shall preserve alive seed from our father.
Exodus 32:25
And Moses will see the people that it was uncovered (for Aaron uncovered it for overthrow among their enemies).
2 Samuel 11:13
And David will call for him, and he will eat before him and drink; and he will make him drunk: and he will go forth in the evening to lie upon his bed with the servants of his lord; and he will not go down to his house.
2 Samuel 13:26-28
And Absalom will say, And shall not Amnon my brother now go with us? And the king will say to him, Wherefore shall he go with thee?
Jeremiah 25:15
For thus said Jehovah God of Israel to me: Take the cup of wine of this wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations which I sent thee to them to drink it
Hosea 7:5
The day of our king the chiefs began anger from wine; stretching forth his hand with mockers.
Revelation 17:2
With whom the kings of the earth were debauched, and they dwelling upon the earth were intoxicated from the wine of her harlotry.
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman intoxicated from the blood of the holy, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus: and wondered, seeing her, with great wonder.
Revelation 18:3
For of the wrath of the wine of her fornication have all nations drunk, and the kings of the earth were debauched with her, and the wholesale merchants of the earth were rich from the power of her luxury.