Habakkuk 2

1I 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.Cross-references: 2Sam 18:24 · 2Ki 9:17 · 2Ki 17:9 · Job 23:5 · Job 31:35 · Job 31:37 · +11 more

2Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.Cross-references: Deut 27:8 · Deut 31:19 · Deut 31:22 · Isa 8:1 · Isa 30:8 · Jer 36:2 · +9 more

3For 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.Cross-references: Ex 12:41 · 2Ki 6:33 · Ps 27:14 · Ps 102:13 · Ps 130:5 · Isa 30:18 · +20 more

4Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.Cross-references: Job 40:11 · Dan 4:30 · Dan 4:37 · Dan 5:20 · Luke 18:14 · John 3:36 · +7 more

5Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to himself all peoples.Cross-references: 2Ki 14:10 · Ps 138:6 · Prov 20:1 · Prov 23:29 · Prov 27:20 · Prov 30:13 · +22 more

6Won’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?’Cross-references: Num 23:7 · Num 23:18 · Job 20:15 · Job 22:6 · Ps 94:3 · Prov 22:16 · +15 more

7Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?Cross-references: Prov 29:1 · Eccl 10:8 · Isa 13:1 · Isa 13:16 · Isa 21:2 · Isa 41:25 · +12 more

8Because 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.Cross-references: Ps 137:8 · Isa 33:1 · Isa 33:4 · Isa 47:6 · Jer 27:7 · Jer 30:16 · +21 more

9Woe 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!Cross-references: Gen 13:10 · Gen 19:26 · Deut 7:25 · Josh 7:21 · 1Ki 21:2 · 1Ki 21:19 · +14 more

10You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.Cross-references: Num 16:38 · 1Ki 2:23 · 2Ki 9:26 · 2Ki 10:7 · Prov 1:18 · Prov 8:36 · +8 more

11For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.Cross-references: Gen 4:10 · Josh 24:27 · Job 31:38 · Luke 19:40 · Heb 12:24 · James 5:3 · +1 more

12Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!Cross-references: Gen 4:11 · Josh 6:26 · 1Ki 16:34 · Jer 22:13 · Ezek 24:9 · Dan 4:27 · +4 more

13Behold, isn’t it from Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?Cross-references: Gen 11:6 · 2Sam 15:31 · Job 5:13 · Ps 39:6 · Ps 127:1 · Prov 21:30 · +6 more

14For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.Cross-references: Ps 22:27 · Ps 67:1 · Ps 72:19 · Ps 86:9 · Ps 98:1 · Isa 6:3 · +4 more

15“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!Cross-references: Gen 9:22 · Gen 19:32 · Ex 32:25 · 2Sam 11:13 · 2Sam 13:26 · Jer 25:15 · +5 more

16You 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.Cross-references: Ps 75:8 · Prov 3:35 · Isa 20:4 · Isa 28:7 · Isa 47:3 · Isa 49:26 · +10 more

17For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals will terrify you, because of men’s blood and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.Cross-references: Ps 55:23 · Ps 137:8 · Prov 28:17 · Jer 50:28 · Jer 50:33 · Jer 51:24 · +4 more

18“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?Cross-references: Ps 115:4 · Ps 135:15 · Isa 1:31 · Isa 37:38 · Isa 42:17 · Isa 44:9 · +19 more

19Woe 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 within it.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:26 · Ps 97:7 · Ps 135:17 · Isa 40:19 · Isa 44:17 · Isa 46:6 · +12 more

20But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”Cross-references: Ps 11:4 · Ps 46:10 · Ps 76:8 · Ps 115:3 · Ps 132:13 · Isa 6:1 · +8 more