Habakkuk:2:2-20

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* And Jehovah answered me and said , Write the vision , and engrave it upon tablets , that he may run that readeth it . * For the vision is yet for an appointed time , but it hasteth to the end , and shall not lie : though it tarry , wait for it ; for it will surely come , it will not delay . * Behold , his soul is puffed up , it is not upright within him : but the just shall live by his faith . * And moreover , the wine is treacherous : he is a proud man , and keepeth not at rest , he enlargeth his desire as Sheol , and he is like death and cannot be satisfied ; and he assembleth unto him all nations , and gathereth unto him all peoples . * Shall not all these take up a proverb about him , and a taunting riddle against him , and say , Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his ! how long ? -- and to him that loadeth himself with pledges ! * Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee , and they awake up that shall vex thee , and thou shalt be for booties unto them ? * Because thou hast plundered many nations , all the rest of the peoples shall plunder thee ; because of men 's blood , and for the violence [done ] to the land , to the city , and all that dwell therein . * Woe to him that getteth iniquitous gain to his house , that he may set his nest on high , that he may be delivered from the grasp of evil ! * Thou hast devised shame to thy house , by cutting off many peoples , and hast sinned against thine own soul . * For the stone shall cry out of the wall , and the beam out of the timber shall answer it . * Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood , and establisheth a city by unrighteousness ! * Behold , is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire , and the nations weary themselves in vain ? * For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah as the waters cover the sea . * Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink , -- that pourest out thy flask , and makest [him ] drunken also , that thou mayest look on their nakedness ! * Thou art filled with shame instead of glory ; drink thou also , and let thy foreskin be uncovered : the cup of Jehovah 's right hand shall be turned unto thee , and a shameful spewing shall be on thy glory . * For the violence [done ] to Lebanon shall cover thee , and the destruction of beasts which made them afraid ; because of men 's blood , and for the violence [done ] to the land , to the city , and all that dwell therein . * What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it ? the molten image , and the teacher of falsehood , that the maker of his work dependeth thereon , to make dumb idols ? * Woe unto him that saith to the wood , Awake ! to the dumb stone , Arise ! Shall it teach ? Behold it is overlaid with gold and silver , and there is no breath at all in the midst of it . * But Jehovah is in his holy temple . Let all the earth keep silence before him !

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