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Habakkuk 2:13
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Habakkuk 2:13
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Has not the LORD Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?
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Habakkuk 2:13 in Other Translations
KJV
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?
ESV
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Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?
NLT
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Has not the LORD of Heaven’s Armies promised that the wealth of nations will turn to ashes? They work so hard, but all in vain!
MSG
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Don't you know that God-of-the-Angel-Armies makes sure nothing comes of that but ashes, Makes sure the harder you work at that kind of thing, the less you are?
CSB
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Is it not from the Lord of Hosts, that the peoples labor [only] to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?
Habakkuk 2:13 In-Context
11
The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.
12
“Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice!
13
Has not the LORD Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?
14
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORDas the waters cover the sea.
15
“Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gaze on their naked bodies!
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Isaiah 50:11
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Isaiah 47:13
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