Habakkuk 2 — Legacy Standard Bible

The Righteous Will Live by His Faith

2I will ^astand on my guard postAnd station myself on the fortification;And I will ^bkeep watch to see ^cwhat He will speak to meAnd how I may respond ¹when I am reproved.²Then Yahweh answered me and said,“^aWrite down the visionAnd write it on tablets distinctly,That ¹the one who ²reads it may run.³“For the vision is yet for the ^aappointed time;It pants toward its end, and it will not ¹lie.Though it tarries, ^bwait for it;For it will certainly come; it ^cwill not delay.⁴“Behold, as for the ^aproud one,His soul is not right within him;But the ^brighteous will live by his ¹faith.⁵“And indeed, ^awine betrays the ^bhaughty manSo that he does not ^cstay at home.He ^denlarges his appetite like Sheol,And he is like death, never satisfied.He also gathers to himself all nationsAnd assembles to himself all peoples.⁶“Will not all of these ^alift up a taunt-song against him,Even satire and riddles against himAnd say, ‘^bWoe to him who increases what is not his—For how long—And makes himself ¹rich with loans?’⁷“Will not ¹your creditors ^arise up suddenly,And those who make you tremble awaken?Indeed, you will become spoil for them.⁸“Because you have ^ataken many nations as spoil,All that is left of the peoples will take you as spoil—Because of human bloodshed and violence ¹done to the land,To the town and all its inhabitants.⁹“Woe to him who is greedy for ^aevil gain for his houseTo ^bput his nest on high,To be delivered from the hand of evil!¹⁰“You have counseled a ^ashameful thing for your houseBy cutting off many peoples;So you are ^bsinning against your own soul.¹¹“Surely the ^astone will cry out from the wall,And the rafter will answer it from the ¹framework.¹²“Woe to him who ^abuilds a city with bloodshedAnd founds a town with injustice!¹³“Is it not, behold, from Yahweh of hostsThat peoples ^atoil for fire,And nations grow weary for nothing?¹⁴“For the earth will be ^afilledWith the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh,As the waters cover the sea.¹⁵“Woe to you who make ¹your neighbors drink,Who mix in your venom even to make them drunkSo as to look on their nakedness!¹⁶“You will be filled with disgrace rather than glory.Now you yourself ^adrink and ¹expose your own nakedness.The ^bcup in Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you,And ^cutter disgrace will come upon your glory.¹⁷“For the ^aviolence ¹done to Lebanon will cover you,And the devastation of its beasts ²by which you terrified them,^bBecause of human bloodshed and ^cviolence ³done to the land,To the town and all its inhabitants.¹⁸“What ^aprofit is the graven image when its maker has engraved it,Or a molten image, a ^bteacher of ¹lies?For its maker ^ctrusts in his own makingWhen he fashions speechless idols.¹⁹“Woe to him who ^asays to a piece of wood, ‘^bAwake!’To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’And that is your teacher?Behold, it is overlaid with ^cgold and silver,And there is ^dno breath at all inside it.²⁰“But ^aYahweh is in His holy temple.¹Let all the earth ^bbe silent before Him.”