Habakkuk:2:2-20
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And Yahweh answered me ,
and said ,
Write the vision ,
and make it plain on tablets ,
that he may run that reads it .
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For the vision is yet for the appointed time ,
and it hurries toward the end ,
and will not lie :
though it tarries ,
wait for it ;
because it will surely come ,
it will not delay .
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Look ,
his soul is presumptuous ,
it is not upright in him ;
but the righteous will live by his faith .
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And how much more arrogant is a betrayer ,
a haughty [
able-bodied ]
man ,
that does not keep at home ;
who enlarges his desire as Sheol ,
and he is as death ,
and can '
t be satisfied ,
but gathers to himself all nations ,
and heaps to himself all peoples .
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Will not all these take up a parable against him ,
and a taunting proverb against him ,
and say ,
Woe to him who increases that which is not his !
How long ?
And that loads himself with pledges !
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Will they not rise up suddenly that will bite you ,
and awake that will vex you ,
and you will be for booty to them ?
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Because you have plundered many nations ,
all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you ,
because of man '
s blood ,
and for the violence done to the land ,
to the city and to all who dwell in it .
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Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house ,
that he may set his nest on high ,
that he may be delivered from the hand of evil !
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You have devised shame to your house ,
by cutting off many peoples ,
and have sinned against your soul .
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For the stone will cry out of the wall ,
and the beam out of the timber will answer it .
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Woe to him who builds a town with blood ,
and establishes a city by iniquity !
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Look ,
is it not of Yahweh of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire ,
and the nations weary themselves for vanity ?
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For the earth will be filled with knowledge of the glory of Yahweh ,
as the waters cover the sea .
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Woe to him who gives his fellow man drink ,
mixing your strong wine ,
and make him drunk also ,
that you may look at their nakedness !
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You are filled with shame ,
and not glory :
you also drink ,
and show your foreskin ;
the cup of Yahweh '
s right hand will come round to you ,
and foul shame will be on your glory .
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For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you ,
and the destruction of the beasts ,
which will frighten you ;
because of man '
s blood ,
and for the violence done to the land ,
to the city and to all who dwell in it .
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What does it profit the graven image ,
that its maker has graven it ;
the molten image ,
even the teacher of lies ,
that he who fashions its form trusts in it ,
to make mute idols ?
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Woe to him who says to the wood ,
Awake ;
Arise ! [
And ]
to the mute stone ,
It will teach .
Look ,
it is overlaid with gold and silver ,
and there is no breath at all in the midst of it .
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But Yahweh is in his holy temple :
let all the earth keep silent before him .
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