Hab 2:5-20 | 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 .

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.
12 ^t“Woe to him ^uwho builds a town with blood
and founds a city on iniquity!
13 Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts
that ^vpeoples labor merely for fire,
and nations weary themselves for nothing?
14 ^wFor the earth will be filled
with the knowledge of ^xthe glory of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.
15 ^y“Woe to him ^zwho makes his neighbors drink—
you pour out your wrath and make them drunk,
in order to gaze ^aaat their nakedness!
16 You will have your fill ^abof shame instead of glory.
^acDrink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision!
^adThe cup in the Lord’s right hand
will come around to you,
and ^aeutter shame will come upon your glory!
17 ^afThe violence ^agdone to Lebanon will overwhelm you,
as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them,
^ahfor the blood of man and violence to the earth,
to cities and all who dwell in them.
18 ^ai“What profit is an idol
when its maker has shaped it,
a metal image, ^aja teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
when he makes ^akspeechless idols!
19 ^alWoe to him ^amwho says to a wooden thing, Awake;
to a silent stone, Arise!
Can this teach?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
and ^anthere is no breath at all in it.
20 But ^aothe Lord is in his holy temple;
^aplet all the earth keep silence before him.”