Habakkuk 2:5

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Summary

Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

He transgresseth

A proud man

Who

Isaiah 5:8

Isaiah 10:7

As hell

Proverbs 27:20

Proverbs 30:15

Ecclesiastes 5:10

Gathereth

Habakkuk 2:8

Isaiah 14:16

Jeremiah 25:9

General references

Proverbs 30:16

Proverbs 31:4

Bible References

He transgresseth

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflames them!

Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield.

In their excitement I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

What do you imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

A proud man

Behold, his soul which is proud is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

Though the LORD be high, yet has he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knows from afar.

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

Call together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none of them escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

But he gives more grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.

Who

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may dwell alone in the midst of the earth!

Yet he means not so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations, not a few.

As hell

Sheol and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

The leach has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance, with increase: this is also vanity.

Gathereth

Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall plunder you; because of bloodshed, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell in it.

They that see you shall gaze upon you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

General references

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that says not, It is enough.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: