Habakkuk:2:2-20
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Then the LORD answered me and said : "
Write the vision And make it plain on tablets ,
That he may run who reads it .
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For the vision is yet for an appointed time ;
But at the end it will speak ,
and it will not lie .
Though it tarries ,
wait for it ;
Because it will surely come ,
It will not tarry .
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Behold the proud ,
His soul is not upright in him ;
But the just shall live by his faith .
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Indeed ,
because he transgresses by wine ,
He is a proud man ,
And he does not stay at home .
Because he enlarges his desire as hell ,
And he is like death ,
and cannot be satisfied ,
He gathers to himself all nations And heaps up for himself all peoples .
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Will not all these take up a proverb against him ,
And a taunting riddle against him ,
and say , "
Woe to him who increases What is not his--how long ?
And to him who loads himself with many pledges '?
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Will not your creditors rise up suddenly ?
Will they not awaken who oppress you ?
And you will become their booty .
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Because you have plundered many nations ,
All the remnant of the people shall plunder you ,
Because of men '
s blood And the violence of the land and the city ,
And of all who dwell in it .
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Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house ,
That he may set his nest on high ,
That he may be delivered from the power of disaster !
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You give shameful counsel to your house ,
Cutting off many peoples ,
And sin against your soul .
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For the stone will cry out from the wall ,
And the beam from the timbers will answer it .
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Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed ,
Who establishes a city by iniquity !
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Behold ,
is it not of the LORD of hosts That the peoples labor to feed the fire ,
And nations weary themselves in vain ?
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For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD ,
As the waters cover the sea .
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Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor ,
Pressing him to your bottle ,
Even to make him drunk ,
That you may look on his nakedness !
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You are filled with shame instead of glory .
You also--drink !
And be exposed as uncircumcised !
The cup of the LORD '
s right hand will be turned against you ,
And utter shame will be on your glory .
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For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you ,
And the plunder of beasts which made them afraid ,
Because of men '
s blood And the violence of the land and the city ,
And of all who dwell in it .
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What profit is the image ,
that its maker should carve it ,
The molded image ,
a teacher of lies ,
That the maker of its mold should trust in it ,
To make mute idols ?
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Woe to him who says to wood , "
Awake !'
To silent stone , "
Arise !
It shall teach !'
Behold ,
it is overlaid with gold and silver ,
Yet in it there is no breath at all .
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But the LORD is in His holy temple .
Let all the earth keep silence before Him ."
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