Habakkuk:2:2-20

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* And the LORD answered me and said , Write the vision , and make [it ] plain on the tablets , that he who reads it may run . * For the vision [is ] still for an appointed time , but it [speaks ] to the end , and it does not lie . Though it lingers , wait for it ; because it will surely come . It will not tarry . * Behold , the soul of him is lifted up , [and ] is not upright ; but the just shall live by his faith . * And also wine indeed betrays a proud man , and [he is ] not content . He widens his soul like Sheol , and he [is ] like death , and is not satisfied , but gathers all nations to himself , and heaps to himself all the peoples . * Shall not all these lift up a parable against him , and a mocking riddle to him , and say , Woe to him who increases [what is ] not his ! Until when , then , shall he load the pledges on himself ? * Shall not those who strike you rise up suddenly , and [those ] who shake you awake , and you become a prize to them ? * Because you have stripped many nations , all the rest of the people shall strip you ; because of men 's blood , and the violence of the land , of the city , and of all who dwell in it . * Woe [to ] him who robs evil booty for his house , to set his nest on high , to be delivered from the hand of evil ! * You have planned shame to your house , to make an end of many people , and are sinning [in ] your soul . * For the stone shall cry out of the wall , and the beam out of the timber shall answer it . * Woe [to ] him who builds a town with blood , and establishes a city by iniquity ! * Behold , [is it ] not for the LORD of hosts that the people labor only for fire ; yea , the nations weary themselves only for vanity ? * For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD , as the waters cover the sea . * Woe [to ] him who gives his neighbor drink , pouring out your wineskin , and also making [him ] drunk , that you may look on their nakedness ! * You are filled with shame instead of glory ; drink also , and [be ] seen as one uncircumcised ! The cup of the LORD 's right hand shall turn on you , and disgrace [shall be ] your glory . * For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you , and the ruin of beasts shall terrify them because of the blood of man , and the violence of the land , the city , and all those dwelling in it . * What does an image profit , for its maker has carved it ; a molten image , and a teacher of lies ? For does the maker trust in his work on it , to make dumb idols ? * Woe [to ] him who says to the wood . Awake ! To a dumb stone , Arise , it shall teach ! Behold , it [is ] overlaid [with ] gold and silver , and no breath is in its midst . * But the LORD [is ] in His holy temple ; let all the earth keep silence before Him .

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