Habakkuk 2

Revised Geneva Translation

2 I will stand upon my watch and set myself upon the tower, and will look and see what He would say to me, and what I shall answer to Him Who rebukes me.

² And the LORD answered me, and said, “Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, so that he who reads it may run.

³ “For the vision is yet for an appointed time. But in the end, it shall speak and not lie. Though it tarries, wait. For it shall surely come and shall not delay.

⁴ “Behold, he who lifts himself up, his mind is not upright in him. But the just shall live by his faith.

⁵ “Yea, indeed the proud man is as he who transgresses by wine. Therefore, he shall not endure because he has enlarged his desire as Hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers all nations to himself, and heaps all people for himself.

⁶ “Shall 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 to him who loads himself with heavy debt!

⁷ “Shall not those who bite you rise up suddenly, and those who stir you awaken, and make you their prey?

⁸ “Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the city, and to all who dwell therein.

⁹ “Woe to him who covets an evil gain for his House, so that he may set his nest on high to escape from the power of evil!

¹⁰ “You have consulted shame to your own House by destroying many people and have sinned against your own soul.

¹¹ “For the stone shall cry out of the wall. And out of the timber shall the beam answer it.

¹² “Woe to him who builds a town with blood and erects a city by iniquity.

¹³ “Behold, is it not of the LORD of Hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire? The people shall weary themselves for frivolity.

¹⁴ “For the Earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

¹⁵ “Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink and mixes it with your own skin to make him drunk, so that you may see their nakedness.

¹⁶ “You are filled with shame for glory. You drink also and are uncovered! The cup of the LORD’s right Hand shall be turned to you, and shameful spewing, for your glory.

¹⁷ “For the cruelty of Lebanon shall cover you, as shall the plunder of the beasts which made them afraid because of men’s blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the city, and to all who dwell in them.

¹⁸ “What profit is the image? For the maker has made it an image, and a teacher of lies. Though, he who made it trusts in it when he makes dumb idols.

¹⁹ “Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake,’ and to the dumb stone, ‘Rise up! It shall teach you! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver. And there is no breath in it.

²⁰ “But the LORD is in His Holy Temple. Let all the Earth keep silence before Him.”