Habakkuk 2:2-8

The Righteous Shall Live by His Faith

2And the Lord answered me:

aWrite the vision;
make it plain on tablets,
so he may run who reads it.
3For still bthe vision awaits its appointed time;
it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow, cwait for it;
dit will surely come; it will not delay.
4 Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,
but ethe righteous shall live by his faith.
Or faithfulness

5 Moreover, wine
Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll wealth
is ha traitor,
an arrogant man who is never at rest.
The meaning of the Hebrew of these two lines is uncertain

His greed is as wide as Sheol;
like death jhe has never enough.
kHe gathers for himself all nations
and collects as his own all peoples.”

Woe to the Chaldeans

6Shall not all these ltake up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,

mWoe to him nwho heaps up what is not his own—
for ohow long?—
and ploads himself with pledges!”
7 qWill not your debtors suddenly arise,
and those awake who will make you tremble?
Then you will be spoil for them.
8 rBecause you have plundered many nations,
all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,
sfor the blood of man and tviolence to the earth,
to cities and all who dwell in them.
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