Habakkuk 2
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1[an error occurred while processing this directive]1I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
2[an error occurred while processing this directive]2And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3[an error occurred while processing this directive]3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
4[an error occurred while processing this directive]4Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
5[an error occurred while processing this directive]5Yea 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:
6[an error occurred while processing this directive]6Shall 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!
7[an error occurred while processing this directive]7Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
8[an error occurred while processing this directive]8Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
9[an error occurred while processing this directive]9Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
10[an error occurred while processing this directive]10Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
11[an error occurred while processing this directive]11For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
12[an error occurred while processing this directive]12Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
13[an error occurred while processing this directive]13Behold, 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?
14[an error occurred while processing this directive]14For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
15[an error occurred while processing this directive]15Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
16[an error occurred while processing this directive]16Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
17[an error occurred while processing this directive]17For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
18[an error occurred while processing this directive]18What 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?
19[an error occurred while processing this directive]19Woe 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.
20[an error occurred while processing this directive]20But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
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