Habakkuk:2

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* I will stand upon my watch and affirm my foot upon the fortress and will watch to see what he will say in me and what I shall answer to my question . * And the LORD answered me and said , Write the vision and make [it ] plain upon tables that he may run that reads it . * For the vision [is ] yet for an appointed time , but at the end it shall speak and not lie ; though it tarry , wait for it because it will surely come ; wait for it . * Behold , he whose soul is not upright in him [will ] become filled with pride , but the just in his faith shall live . * Even more than he who is given over to wine , [the ] transposer , the proud man , shall not remain , who enlarges his desire as Sheol and [is ] as death and cannot be satisfied , but gathered unto him all the Gentiles and heaps unto him all the peoples ; * Shall not all these take up a parable against him and a taunting enigma against him and say , Woe to him that multiplied [that which was ] not his ! And [for ] how long would he pile thick clay upon himself ? * Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee and awake those that shall take thy place , and thou shalt be for a prey unto them ? * Because thou hast spoiled many nations , all the other peoples shall spoil thee because of human blood and [for ] the robberies of the land , of the cities , and of all that dwell therein . * Woe to him that covets illgotten gain by violence for his house that he may set his nest on high , that he may escape from the power of evil ! * Thou hast taken shameful counsel for thy house by cutting off many peoples and hast committed a sin against thy life . * For the stone shall cry out from the wall , and the beam out of the timber shall answer it . * Woe to him that builds the city with blood and founds the village with iniquity ! * [Is ] this not of the LORD of the hosts ? Therefore the peoples shall labour for the fire , and the Gentiles shall weary themselves in vain . * 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 gives his neighbours drink , that puts thy bottle to [them ], and makes [them ] drunken also , that thou may look on their nakedness ! * Thou hast filled thyself with dishonour instead of honour ; drink thou also , and thy foreskin shall be uncovered ; the cup of the LORD 'S right hand shall be turned unto thee , and shameful vomit [shall fall ] upon thy glory . * For the violence of Lebanon shall fall upon thee and the destruction of the [wild ] beasts shall break thee , because of the human blood , and of the robbery of the land , of the cities , and of all that dwell therein . * Of what profit [is ] the graven image that its maker has sculpted ; the molten image , that teaches lies , so that in making dumb images the maker trusts in his work ? * Woe unto him that saith to the wood , Awake ; to the dumb stone , Arise ! Can it ever teach ? Behold , it [is ] laid over with gold and silver , and [there is ] no breath at all within it . * But the LORD [is ] in his holy temple : let all the earth keep silence before him .:

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