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| Habakkuk 2:1 | I will take my position and be on watch, placing myself on my tower, looking out to see what he will say to me, and what answer he will give to my protest. | On my charge I stand, and I station myself on a bulwark, and I watch to see what He doth speak against me, and what I do reply to my reproof. | I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint. |
| Habakkuk 2:2 | And the Lord gave me an answer, and said, Put the vision in writing and make it clear on stones, so that the reader may go quickly. | And Jehovah answereth me and saith: `Write a vision, and explain on the tables, That he may run who is reading it. | Yahweh answered me, "Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. |
| Habakkuk 2:3 | For the vision is still for the fixed time, and it is moving quickly to the end, and it will not be false: even if it is slow in coming, go on waiting for it; because it will certainly come, it will not be kept back. | For yet the vision [is] for a season, And it breatheth for the end, and doth not lie, If it tarry, wait for it, For surely it cometh, it is not late. | For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay. |
| Habakkuk 2:4 | As for the man of pride, my soul has no pleasure in him; but the upright man will have life through his good faith. | Lo, a presumptuous one! Not upright is his soul within him, And the righteous by his stedfastness liveth. | Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith. |
| Habakkuk 2:5 | A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself. | And also, because the wine [is] treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples, | Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples. |
| Habakkuk 2:6 | Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors! | Do not these all of them against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo [to] him who is multiplying [what is] not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges? | Won't 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, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?' |
| Habakkuk 2:7 | Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war? | Do not thy usurers instantly rise up, And those shaking thee awake up, And thou hast been for a spoil to them? | Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim? |
| Habakkuk 2:8 | Because you have taken their goods from great nations, all the rest of the peoples will take your goods from you; because of men's blood and violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it. | Because thou hast spoiled many nations, Spoil thee do all the remnant of the peoples, Because of man`s blood, and of violence [to] the land, [To] the city, and [to] all dwelling in it. | Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it. |
| Habakkuk 2:9 | A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer! | Wo [to] him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil, | 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! |
| Habakkuk 2:10 | You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul. | Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful [is] thy soul. | You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul. |
| Habakkuk 2:11 | For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork. | For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it. | For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it. |
| Habakkuk 2:12 | A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing! | Wo [to] him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity. | Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity! |
| Habakkuk 2:13 | See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing? | Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary? | Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity? |
| Habakkuk 2:14 | For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters. | For full is the earth of the knowledge of the honour of Jehovah, As waters cover [the bottom of] a sea. | For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea. |
| Habakkuk 2:15 | A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame! | Wo [to] him who is giving drink to his neighbour, Pouring out thy bottle, and also making drunk, In order to look on their nakedness. | "Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies! |
| Habakkuk 2:16 | You are full of shame in place of glory: take your part in the drinking, and let your shame be uncovered: the cup of the Lord's right hand will come round to you and your glory will be covered with shame. | Thou hast been filled shame without honour, Drink thou also, and be uncircumcised, Turn round unto thee doth the cup of the right hand of Jehovah, And shameful spewing [is] on thine honour. | You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh's right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory. |
| Habakkuk 2:17 | For the violent acts against Lebanon will come on you, and the destruction of the cattle will be a cause of fear to you, because of men's blood and the violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it. | For violence [to] Lebanon doth cover thee, And spoil of beasts doth affright them, Because of man`s blood, and of violence [to] the land, [To] the city, and [to] all dwelling in it. | For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them. |
| Habakkuk 2:18 | What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice? | What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation to make dumb idols? | "What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols? |
| Habakkuk 2:19 | A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it. | Wo [to] him who is saying to wood, `Awake,` `Stir up,` to a dumb stone, It a teacher! lo, it is overlaid gold and silver, And there is no spirit in its midst. | Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. |
| Habakkuk 2:20 | But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth be quiet before him. | And Jehovah [is] in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth! | But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!" |
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