Habakkuk Chapter 2
2:1 | I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to ![]() ![]() |
2:2 | And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make [it] plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. |
2:3 | For the vision [is] yet for an appointed ![]() |
2:4 | Behold, his soul [which] is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. |
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2:6 | Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth [that which is] not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! |
2:7 | Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? |
2:8 | Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men' blood, and [for] the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. |
2:9 | Woe to him that coveteth an ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2:10 | Thou hast consulted shame to thy ![]() |
2:11 | For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall ![]() |
2:12 | Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! |
2:13 | Behold, [is it] not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? |
2:14 | For the ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2:15 | Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour ![]() |
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2:17 | For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, [which] made them afraid, because of men' blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. |
2:18 | What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? |
2:19 | Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all in the midst of it. |
2:20 | But the LORD [is] in his holy temple: let all the ![]() |