Habakkuk:2

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* I will stand upon my watch , and set me upon the tower , and will look out to see what He will speak by me , and what I shall answer when I am reproved . * And the LORD answered me , and said : 'Write the vision , and make it plain upon tables , that a man may read it swiftly . * For the vision is yet for the appointed time , and it declareth of the end , and doth not lie ; though it tarry , wait for it ; because it will surely come , it will not delay .' * Behold , his soul is puffed up , it is not upright in him ; but the righteous shall live by his faith . * Yea , moreover , wine is a treacherous dealer ; the haughty man abideth not ; he who enlargeth his desire as the nether-world , and is as death , and cannot be satisfied , but gathereth unto him all nations , and heapeth unto him all peoples . * Shall not all these take up a parable against him , and a taunting riddle against him , and say : 'Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his ! how long ? and that ladeth himself with many pledges !' * Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall exact interest of thee , and awake that shall violently shake thee , and thou shalt be for booties unto them ? * Because thou hast spoiled many nations , all the remnant of the peoples shall spoil thee ; because of men 's blood , and for the violence done to the land , to the city and to all that dwell therein . * Woe to him that gaineth evil gains for his house , that he may set his nest on high , that he may be delivered from the power of evil ! * Thou hast devised shame to thy house , by cutting off many peoples , and hast forfeited thy life . * 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 iniquity ! * Behold , is it not of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire , and the nations weary themselves for vanity ? * For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD , as the waters cover the sea . * Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink , that puttest thy venom thereto , and makest him drunken also , that thou mayest look on their nakedness ! * Thou art filled with shame instead of glory , drink thou also , and be uncovered ; the cup of the LORD 'S right hand shall be turned unto thee , and filthiness shall be upon thy glory . * For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee , and the destruction of the beasts , which made them afraid ; because of men 's blood , and for the violence done to the land , to the city and to all that dwell therein . * What profiteth the graven image , that the maker thereof hath graven it , even the molten image , and the teacher of lies ; that the maker of his work trusteth therein , to make dumb idols ? * Woe unto him that saith to the wood : 'Awake ', to the dumb stone : 'Arise !' Can this teach ? Behold , it is overlaid with gold and silver , and there is no breath at all in the midst of it . * But the LORD is in His holy temple ; let all the earth keep silence before Him .

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