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 whoever goes astray by it is not wise.

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

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

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning to go after strong drink; tarrying in the twilight while wine inflames them!

Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink; arise, rulers. Anoint the shield.

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk so that they may rejoice and sleep a never-ending sleep, and never awaken, says Jehovah.

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

What are you plotting against Jehovah? He will make an utter end; affliction shall not rise up the second time.

A proud man

Behold, the soul of him is lifted up, and is not upright; but the just shall live by his faith.

Though Jehovah is high, yet He has respect to the lowly; but the proud He knows afar off.

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 pride of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

We have heard of the pride of Moab; very proud; even of his vanity, and his pride, and his rage; not so are his babblings.

Make the archers hear against Babylon. All you who tread a bow, camp against it all around; let none of them escape. Repay her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her. For she has been proud against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.

But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was put down from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him.

But He gives more grace. Therefore He says, God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.

Who

Woe to those who join house to house, laying field to field, until the end of space, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

Yet he does not plan this, nor does his heart think so. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off not a few nations.

As hell

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

The leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give! Three things are never satisfied, yea, four things never say, Enough!

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, and he who loves abundance not with gain. This is also vanity.

Gathereth

Because you have stripped many nations, all the rest of the people shall strip you; because of men's blood, and the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell in it.

Those who see you shall stare and closely watch you, saying, Is this the man who made the earth to tremble; who shook kingdoms;

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Jehovah, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and will bring them against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations all around. And I will completely destroy them, and make them a waste, and a hissing, and everlasting ruins.

General references

The grave; and the barren womb, the earth not filled with water, and the fire, have not said, Enough.

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