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title: Habakkuk 2
slug: kjv/habakkuk-2
createdAt: 2024-08-25T03:34:10.922Z
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**1 **I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

**2 **And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make *it* plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

**3 **For the vision *is* yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

**4 **Behold, his soul *which* is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

**5 **Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, *he is* a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and *is* as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

**6 **Shall 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 to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

**7 **Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

**8 **Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and *for* the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

**9 **Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

**10 **Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned *against* thy soul.

**11 **For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

**12 **Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

**13 **Behold, *is it* not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?

**14 **For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

**15 **Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to *him*, and makest *him* drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

**16 **Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing *shall be* on thy glory.

**17 **For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, *which* made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

**18 **What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

**19 **Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it *is* laid over with gold and silver, and *there is* no breath at all in the midst of it.

**20 **But the LORD *is* in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.