Habakkuk 2 — RVA
2Verse 1I WILL stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer concerning my complaint.Verse 2And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.Verse 3For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.Verse 4Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.Verse 5Yea, moreover, wine is a treacherous dealer, a haughty man, and that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as hell, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.Verse 6Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and that ladeth himself with pledges!Verse 7Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?Verse 8Because 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.Verse 9Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!Verse 10Thou hast consulted shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul.Verse 11For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.Verse 12Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!Verse 13Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?Verse 14For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.Verse 15Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that addest thy venom thereto, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!Verse 16Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and be as one uncircumcised: the cup of the LORD’S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and foul shame shall be upon thy glory.Verse 17For 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.Verse 18What profiteth the graven image, that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and the teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?Verse 19Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.Verse 20But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.