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Habakkuk 2 📜 📕 ↷
LORD Answers Again
1 I will stand upon my watch, and fix my step upon the munition: and I will behold, to see what may be said to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.📜💬📚
2 And our Lord answered me, and said: Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables: that he which runneth may read it over.📜💬📚
3 Because as yet the vision is far, and it shall appear at the end, and shall not lie: if he shall make tarriance, expect him: because coming he will come, and he will not slack.📜💬📚
4 Behold he that is incredulous, his soul shall not be right in himself: but the just shall live in his faith.📜💬📚
5 And as wine deceiveth him that drinketh: so shall the proud man be, and he shall not be beautified: who as it were hell, hath dilated his soul: and himself as death, and he is not filled: and he hath gathered together unto him all nations, and hath heaped together unto him all peoples.📜💬📚
Woe to the Chaldeans
6 Why, shall not all these take up a parable upon him, and a speech of obscure sayings of him: and it be said: Woe to him that multiplieth things not his own? How long also doth he aggravate against himself thick clay?📜💬📚
7 Why, shall they not rise suddenly, that shall bite thee? And they shall tear thee, be raised up, and thou be for a spoil to them?📜💬📚
8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all that shall be left of the peoples shall spoil thee: for the blood of man, and the iniquity of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.📜💬📚
9 Woe to him that gathereth together naughty avarice to his house, that his nest may be on high, and thinketh he is delivered out of the hand of evil.📜💬📚
10 Thou hast thought confusion to thy house, thou hast cut in sunder many peoples, and thy soul hath sinned.📜💬📚
11 Because the stone out of the wall shall cry: and the timber, that is between the junctures of the buildings, shall answer.📜💬📚
12 Woe to him that buildeth a city in bloods, and prepareth a city in iniquity.📜💬📚
13 Why, are not these things from the Lord of hosts? For the peoples shall labour in much fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint.📜💬📚
14 Because the earth shall be replenished, that they may know the glory of our Lord, as waters covering the sea.📜💬📚
15 Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend, putting in his gall, and making drunk, that he may behold his nakedness.📜💬📚
16 Thou art filled with ignominy for glory, drink thou also, and be fast a sleep: the cup of the right hand of our Lord shall compass thee, and the vomit of ignominy upon thy glory.📜💬📚
17 Because the iniquity of Libanus shall cover thee, & the wasting of the beasts shall terrify them for the bloods of men, and the iniquity of the land, and of the city, and of all that dwell therein.📜💬📚
18 What profiteth the thing engraven, that the forger thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? Because the forger thereof hath hoped in his forgery, to make dumb idols.📜💬📚
19 Woe unto him that saith to wood: Awake: Arise, to the dumb stone. Why, can it teach? Behold, this same is covered with gold, and silver: and there is no spirit in the bowels thereof.📜💬📚
20 But our Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth be silent at his presence.📜💬📚
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