Habakkuk, Chapter 2, verses 5-8, 10-13

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“Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man,
So that he does not stay at home.
He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He also gathers to himself all nations
And collects to himself all peoples.

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“Will not all of these take up a taunt-song against him,
Even mockery and insinuations against him
And say, ‘Woe to him who increases what is not his—
For how long—
And makes himself^grich with loans?’

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“Will not^hyour creditors rise up suddenly,
And those whoⁱcollect from you awaken?
Indeed, you will become plunder for them.

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“Because you have looted many nations,
All the remainder of the peoples will loot you—
Because of human bloodshed and violence^jdone to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.

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“You have devised a shameful thing for your house
By cutting off many peoples;
So you are sinning against yourself.

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“Surely the stone will cry out from the wall,
And the rafter will answer it from the^kframework.

¹²

“Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed
And founds a town with^lviolence!

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“Is it not indeed from the LORD of hosts
That peoples toil for fire,
And nations grow weary for nothing?


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