Habakkuk 2:8-18

8 Because you have plundered many nations, the peoples who are left will plunder you. For you have shed human blood; you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.
9 “Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, setting his nest on high to escape the clutches of ruin!
10 You have plotted the ruin of many peoples, shaming your own house and forfeiting your life.
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!
16 You will be filled with shame instead of glory. Now it is your turn! Drink and let your nakedness be exposed[a] ! The cup from the LORD’s right hand is coming around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
17 The violence you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and your destruction of animals will terrify you. For you have shed human blood; you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.
18 “Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.

Cross References 27

  • 1. Isaiah 33:1; Jeremiah 50:17-18; S Obadiah 1:15; Zechariah 2:8-9
  • 2. ver 17
  • 3. S Ezekiel 39:10
  • 4. S Jeremiah 22:13
  • 5. S Jeremiah 51:13
  • 6. S Job 39:27; S Isaiah 10:14
  • 7. Jeremiah 26:19
  • 8. ver 16; S Nahum 3:6
  • 9. S Joshua 24:27; Zechariah 5:4; Luke 19:40
  • 10. S Ezekiel 22:2; S Micah 3:10
  • 11. Isaiah 50:11
  • 12. S Isaiah 47:13
  • 13. S Exodus 16:7; S Numbers 14:21
  • 14. S Isaiah 11:9
  • 15. S Proverbs 23:20
  • 16. S ver 10
  • 17. S Ezekiel 23:32-34; Hosea 4:7
  • 18. S Leviticus 10:9
  • 19. S Lamentations 4:21
  • 20. S Psalms 16:5; S Isaiah 51:22
  • 21. S Jeremiah 51:35
  • 22. S Jeremiah 50:15
  • 23. ver 8
  • 24. S 1 Samuel 12:21
  • 25. S Judges 10:14; S Isaiah 40:19; S Jeremiah 5:21; S Jeremiah 14:22
  • 26. S Leviticus 26:1
  • 27. Psalms 115:4-5; Jeremiah 10:14; 1 Corinthians 12:2

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, Aquila, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint) "and stagger"
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