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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Habakkuk 2 Bishops' Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/habakkuk/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/habakkuk/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Bishops'</a> > Habakkuk 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../habakkuk/1.htm" title="Habakkuk 1">◄</a> Habakkuk 2 <a href="../habakkuk/3.htm" title="Habakkuk 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Bishops' Bible of 1568</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/habakkuk/2-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The LORD Answers Again<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I will stande vpon my watche, and set me vpon the towre, & will loke, and see what he will say vnto me, and what I shall aunswere to him that rebuketh me.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the Lord aunswered me, and said: write the vision, and make it plaine vpon tables, that he may run that readeth it.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For the vision is yet for an appoynted time, but at the last it shall speake, and not lye: though it tary, wayte: for it shall surely come, and shall not stay.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Behold, he that lifteth vp him selfe, his minde is not vpright in him: but the iust shall liue by his fayth.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Yea in deede the proude man <FI>is as<Fi> he that transgresseth by wine, therfore shall he not endure, because he hath enlarged his desire as the hell, & is as death, and can not be satisfied, but gathereth vnto him all nations, and heapeth vnto him all people.<p> <A name="7"></a><p class="hdg">Woe to the Chaldeans<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Shall not all these take vp a parable against him? and a taunting prouerbe against him, and say: Wo he that increaseth that which is not his? how long? and he that ladeth him selfe with thicke clay?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Shall they not rise vp sodenly that shall byte thee? and awake that shall stirre thee, & thou shalt be their pray?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Because thou hast spoyled many nations, all the remnaunt of the people shall spoyle thee, because of mens blood, and for the wrong <FI>done<Fi> in the lande, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therin.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Wo he that coueteth an euyll couetousnesse to his house, that he may set his nest on hie, to escape from the power of euyll.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Thou hast consulted shame to thyne owne house, by destroying many people, & hast sinned against thyne owne soule.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the stone shall crye out of the wal, and the beame out of the timber shall aunswere it.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Wo vnto him that buyldeth a towne with blood, and erecteth a citie by iniquitie.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Behold, is it not of the Lord of hoastes that the people shall labour in the very fire? the people shall euen weery them selues for very vanitie.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For the earth shalbe filled with the knowledge of the glorie of the Lorde, as the waters couer the sea.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Wo vnto him that geueth his neyghbour drinke, thou ioynest thy heate, and makest <FI>him<Fi> drunken also, that thou mayest see their priuities.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Thou art filled with shame for glorie, drinke thou also and be made naked: the cup of the Lordes right hand shalbe turned vnto thee, and shamefull spuyng shalbe for thy glorie.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For the crueltie of Libanus shall couer thee: so shal the spoyle of the beastes which he made afrayde, because of mens blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therin.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>What profiteth the image? for the maker therof hath made it an image and a teacher of lyes, though he that made it trust therin when he maketh dumbe idoles.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Wo vnto hym that sayth to the wood, Awake: and to the dumbe stone, Rise vp, it shall teache <FI>thee:<Fi> beholde it is layde ouer with gold and siluer, & there is no breath in it.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth kepe scilence before hym.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Bishops' Bible of 1568<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../habakkuk/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Habakkuk 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Habakkuk 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../habakkuk/3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Habakkuk 3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Habakkuk 3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>