Habakkuk 2 NKJV

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width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/habakkuk/2.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>The Just Shall Live by Faith</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text Hab-2-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I will stand my watch</span></span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-1">And set myself on the rampart,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-1">And watch to see what He will say to me,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-1">And what I will answer when I am corrected.</span></p></div> <h3> The Just Live by Faith</span></h3><p><span class="text Hab-2-2"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> answered me and said:</span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Hab-2-2">“Write the vision</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-2">And make <i>it</i> plain on tablets,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-2">That he may run who reads it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For the vision <i>is</i> yet for an appointed time;</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-3">But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-3">Though it tarries, wait for it;</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-3">Because it will surely come,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-3">It will not tarry.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Behold the proud,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-4">His soul is not upright in him;</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-4">But the just shall live by his faith.</span></p></div> <h3> Woe to the Wicked</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Hab-2-5"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Indeed, because he transgresses by wine,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-5"><i>He is</i> a proud man,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-5">And he does not stay at home.</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-5">Because he enlarges his desire as <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>hell,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-5">And he <i>is</i> like death, and cannot be satisfied,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-5">He gathers to himself all nations</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-5">And heaps up for himself all peoples.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Will not all these take up a proverb against him,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-6">And a taunting riddle against him, and say,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-6">‘Woe to him who increases</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-6"><i>What</i> is not his—how long?</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-6">And to him who loads himself with <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>many pledges’?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Will not <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>your creditors rise up suddenly?</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-7">Will they not awaken who oppress you?</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-7">And you will become their booty.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Because you have plundered many nations,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-8">All the remnant of the people shall plunder you,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-8">Because of men’s <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>blood</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-8">And the violence of the land <i>and</i> the city,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-8">And of all who dwell in it.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-9">That he may set his nest on high,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-9">That he may be delivered from the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>power of disaster!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You give shameful counsel to your house,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-10">Cutting off many peoples,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-10">And sin <i>against</i> your soul.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the stone will cry out from the wall,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-11">And the beam from the timbers will answer it.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-12">Who establishes a city by iniquity!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Behold, <i>is it</i> not of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-13">That the peoples labor <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>to feed the fire,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-13">And nations weary themselves in vain?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For the earth will be filled</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-14">With the knowledge of the glory of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-14">As the waters cover the sea.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-15"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>Pressing <i>him to</i> your bottle,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-15">Even to make <i>him</i> drunk,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-15">That you may look on <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>his nakedness!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You are filled with shame instead of glory.</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-16">You also—drink!</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-16">And <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span>be exposed as uncircumcised!</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-16">The cup of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>’s right hand <i>will be</i> turned against you,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-16">And utter shame will be on your glory.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For the violence <i>done to</i> Lebanon will cover you,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-17">And the plunder of beasts <i>which</i> made them afraid,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-17">Because of men’s blood</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-17">And the violence of the land <i>and</i> the city,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-17">And of all who dwell in it.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-18">The molded image, a teacher of lies,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-18">That the maker of its mold should trust in it,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-18">To make mute idols?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-19">To silent stone, ‘Arise! It shall teach!’</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-19">Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-19">Yet in it there is no breath at all.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“But the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> is in His holy temple.</span><br /><span class="text Hab-2-20">Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-22754a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Habakkuk 2:5">Habakkuk 2:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Sheol</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22755b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Habakkuk 2:6">Habakkuk 2:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr., Vg. <i>thick clay</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22756c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Habakkuk 2:7">Habakkuk 2:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>those who bite you</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22757d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Habakkuk 2:8">Habakkuk 2:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>bloodshed</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22758e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Habakkuk 2:9">Habakkuk 2:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>hand of evil</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22762f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Habakkuk 2:13">Habakkuk 2:13</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>for what satisfies fire,</i> for what is of no lasting value</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22764g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Habakkuk 2:15">Habakkuk 2:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>Attaching</i> or <i>Joining</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22764h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Habakkuk 2:15">Habakkuk 2:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>their</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22765i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Habakkuk 2:16">Habakkuk 2:16</span> <span class='footnote-text'>DSS, LXX <i>reel!;</i> Syr., Vg. <i>fall fast asleep!</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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