Thematic Bible
Habakkuk 2:1 (show verse)
I will stand at my post, and station myself on [the] rampart. And I will keep watch to see what he will say to me, and what he will answer concerning my complaint.
Habakkuk 2:2 (show verse)
Then Yahweh answered me and said, "Write [the] vision and make [it] plain on the tablet so that {it might be read quickly}.
Habakkuk 2:3 (show verse)
For [there is] yet a vision for the appointed time; it will give witness to the end, and it will not lie. If it tarries, wait for it, for it will surely come and not delay.
Habakkuk 2:4 (show verse)
Look! His spirit within him is puffed up; it is not upright. But the righteous shall live by his faithfulness.
Habakkuk 2:5 (show verse)
{How much less} the defiant; [the] arrogant, treacherous man? He who broadens his throat like Sheol, and who, like death, is not satisfied, and who gathers to himself all the nations, and harvested for himself all the peoples, will not succeed.
Habakkuk 2:6 (show verse)
Shall not all of these take up a taunt against him, with ridicule and riddles against him, saying, 'Woe to him who heaps up what is not his'? [For] how long? And, '[Woe to him] who makes himself heavy with pledges'?
Habakkuk 2:7 (show verse)
Will not your creditors suddenly rise up and awaken those who make you tremble? Then you shall be as plunder for them.
Habakkuk 2:8 (show verse)
Because you plundered many nations, all the remaining nations will plunder you on account of the blood of humanity and violence [against the] land, [and against] cities and all who live in them.
Habakkuk 2:9 (show verse)
Woe to [him who] obtains profit [from] evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be saved from the hand of misfortune!
Habakkuk 2:10 (show verse)
You have plotted shame for your house, cutting off many peoples and sinning against your life.
Habakkuk 2:11 (show verse)
For the stone will cry out from the wall, and [the] plaster from [the] wood will answer it.
Habakkuk 2:12 (show verse)
Woe to [him who] builds a city by bloodguilt, and [who] founds a city by wickedness!
Habakkuk 2:13 (show verse)
Look! [Is it] not from Yahweh of hosts that people labor for mere fire, and nations exhaust themselves for mere vanity?
Habakkuk 2:14 (show verse)
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, like the waters covering the sea.
Habakkuk 2:15 (show verse)
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!
Habakkuk 2:16 (show verse)
You will be sated with shame rather than glory. Drink also yourself, and expose yourself! The cup of the right hand of Yahweh will come around upon you and disgrace upon your glory.
Habakkuk 2:17 (show verse)
For [the] violence of Lebanon will cover you, and [the] destruction of wild animals will shatter them on account of the blood of humanity, and [the] violence [against the] land, [against] a city and all the inhabitants in it.
Habakkuk 2:18 (show verse)
What value [is] an idol when its carver has fashioned it, a molten idol, a teacher of lies? For [he who] fashioned his creation trusts in it, [though] making mute idols!
Habakkuk 2:19 (show verse)
Woe to [him who] says to the wood, 'Wake up!' [And] to a lifeless stone, 'Arise!' Can he teach? Look, it is covered [with] gold and silver, and there is no breath within it.
Habakkuk 2:20 (show verse)
But Yahweh [is] in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him."