Habakkuk 2
aligned by seat — same row, same verse, whatever each bible numbers it
| v | JPS1917 |
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| 1 | 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. |
| 2 | And the LORD answered me, and said: ‘Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, That a man may read it swiftly. |
| 3 | 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.’ |
| 4 | Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him; But the righteous shall live by his faith. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | 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! ’ |
| 7 | 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? |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 | 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! |
| 10 | Thou hast devised shame to thy house, By cutting off many peoples, And hast forfeited thy life. |
| 11 | For the stone shall cry out of the wall, And the beam out of the timber shall answer it. |
| 12 | Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, And establisheth a city by iniquity! |
| 13 | Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts That the peoples labour for the fire, And the nations weary themselves for vanity? |
| 14 | For the earth shall be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea. |
| 15 | 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! |
| 16 | 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. |
| 17 | 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. |
| 18 | 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? |
| 19 | 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. |
| 20 | But the LORD is in His holy temple; Let all the earth keep silence before Him. |