Hab 2:5-11 | ESV | STEP | Moreover , wine is a traitor , an arrogant man who is never at rest . His greed is as wide as Sheol ; like death he has never enough . He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples .

o[See ver. 6 above]

Habakkuk 2:5-11

5 “Moreover, wine ^{▼▼Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll wealth} is ^ba 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 ^dhe has never enough.
^eHe gathers for himself all nations
and collects as his own all peoples.”

Woe to the Chaldeans

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

^g“Woe to him ^hwho heaps up what is not his own—
for ⁱhow long?—
and ^jloads himself with pledges!”
7 ^kWill not your debtors suddenly arise,
and those awake who will make you tremble?
Then you will be spoil for them.
8 ^lBecause you have plundered many nations,
all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,
^mfor the blood of man and ⁿviolence to the earth,
to cities and all who dwell in them.
9 ^o“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
^pto ^qset his nest on high,
to be safe from the reach of harm!
10 You have devised shame for your house
^rby cutting off many peoples;
you have forfeited your life.
11 For ^sthe stone will cry out from the wall,
and the beam from the woodwork respond.