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9 Woe to the one biting off evil gain for his house, to set his nest in the heights, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! 10 You have devised shame for your house, cutting off many peoples, and sinning against your soul. 11 For a stone from the wall will cry out, and a beam from the timbers will answer it: 12 Woe to the one building a city with bloodshed, and who establishes a town by injustice! 13 Behold, Is it not from YHWH of Hosts that the labor of the people is for feeding the fire, and nations only in vain weary themselves? 14 For the earth will be filled to know the glory of YHWH, as the waters cover over the sea. 15 Woe to the one giving drink to his neighbor, pouring out your rage and even to make him drunk, in order to look upon his nakedness! 16 You have been filled with shame instead of glory. Drink, you also, and expose your uncircumcision. It will turn around upon you—the cup of the right hand of YHWH, and disgrace be upon your glory. 17 For the violence to Lebanon will cover you, and the destruction of the beasts will terrify them, from the bloodshed of man and the violence to the land, to the city and all those dwelling in it. 18 What profit is an image when its fashioner has carved it, a molten image and a teacher of falsehood? For the one fashioning trusts upon it in his fashioning, making mute idols. 19 Woe to the one saying to the wood, ‘Awake!’ Or to a stone of silence, ‘Arise!’ Can it give instruction? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and not any breath is within it.” 20 And YHWH is in the temple of His holiness; let all the earth be silent before Him. Habakkuk 2:9-20, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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