Habakkuk 2

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¹On my keeping I shall stand, and shall pitch my step on the warding; and I shall behold, that I see what thing shall be said to me, and what I shall answer to him that reproveth me.

²And the Lord answered to me, and said, Write thou the sight, either revelation, and make it plain on tables, that he run, that shall read it.

³For yet the vision is far, and it shall appear into the end, and shall not lie; if it shall make dwelling, abide thou it, for it coming shall come, and shall not tarry.

⁴Lo! the soul of him, that is unbelieveful, shall not be rightful or right in himself; forsooth the just man shall live in his faith.

⁵And as wine deceiveth a man drinking, so shall the proud man be, and he shall not be made fair; for as hell he alarged his soul, and he is as death, and he is not ful filled; and he shall gather to him all folks, and he shall gather together to him all peoples.

⁶Whether not all these peoples shall take a parable on him, and the speaking of dark sentences of him? And it shall be said, Woe to him that multiplieth things not his own; how long, and he aggregateth against himself thick clay?

⁷Whether not suddenly they shall rise together, that shall bite thee? And they shall be raised tearing thee, and thou shalt be into raven to them; and thine ambushers in evil shall wake.

⁸For thou robbedest many folks, all shall rob thee, which shall be residue, either left, of peoples, for blood of man, and for wickedness of land, of the city, and of all men dwelling in it.

⁹Woe to him that gathereth evil covetousness to his house, that his nest be on high, and guesseth him for to be delivered of the hand of evil.

¹⁰Thou thoughtest confusion to thine house; thou hast slain many peoples, and thy soul sinned.

¹¹For the stone of the wall shall cry, and a tree that is betwixt jointures of buildings shall answer.

¹²Woe to him that buildeth a city in bloods, and maketh ready a city in wickedness.

¹³Whether not these things be of the Lord of hosts? For peoples shall travail in much fire, and folks in vain, and they shall fail.

¹⁴For the earth shall be filled, that it know the glory of the Lord, as waters covering the sea.

¹⁵Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend, and sendeth his gall, and maketh drunken, that he behold his nakedness.

¹⁶He is filled with evil fame for glory; and thou drink, and be fast asleep; the cup of the right half of the Lord shall compass thee, and casting up, either spewing, of evil fame up on thy glory.

¹⁷For the wickedness of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the destruction of beasts shall make them afeared, of bloods of man, and of wickedness of the land, and of the city, and of all men dwelling therein.

¹⁸What profiteth the graven image, for his maker engraved it, a welled thing together, and a false image? for the maker thereof hoped in the making, that he made dumb simulacra.

¹⁹Woe to him that saith to a tree, Wake thou; Rise thou, to a stone being still; whether he shall be able to teach? Lo! this thing is covered with gold and silver, and no spirit is in his entrails.

²⁰Forsooth the Lord is in his holy temple, all earth be still from his face.