Hab 2:12 ¶ "Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed And founds a town with violence!
Hab 2:13 "Is it not indeed from the LORD of hosts That peoples toil for fire, And nations grow weary for nothing?
Hab 2:14 "For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.
Hab 2:15 ¶ "Woe to you who make your neighbors drink, Who mix in your venom even to make them drunk So as to look on their nakedness!
Hab 2:16 "You will be filled with disgrace rather than honor. Now you yourself drink and expose your own nakedness. The cup in the LORD'S right hand will come around to you, And utter disgrace will come upon your glory.
Hab 2:17 "For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, And the devastation of its beasts by which you terrified them, Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land, To the town and all its inhabitants.
Hab 2:18 ¶ "What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it, Or an image, a teacher of falsehood? For its maker trusts in his own handiwork When he fashions speechless idols.
Hab 2:19 "Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, 'Awake!' To a mute stone, 'Arise!' And that is your teacher? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, And there is no breath at all inside it.
Hab 2:20 "But the LORD is in His holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before Him."
Hab 3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.
Hab 3:3 ¶ God comes from Teman, And the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His splendor covers the heavens, And the earth is full of His praise.
Hab 3:4His radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, And there is the hiding of His power.
Hab 3:5 Before Him goes pestilence, And plague comes after Him.
Hab 3:6 He stood and surveyed the earth; He looked and startled the nations. Yes, the perpetual mountains were shattered, The ancient hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
Hab 3:8 ¶ Did the LORD rage against the rivers, Or was Your anger against the rivers, Or was Your wrath against the sea, That You rode on Your horses, On Your chariots of salvation?
Hab 3:9 Your bow was made bare, The rods of chastisement were sworn. Selah. You cleaved the earth with rivers.
Hab 3:10 The mountains saw You and quaked; The downpour of waters swept by. The deep uttered forth its voice, It lifted high its hands.
Hab 3:11 Sun and moon stood in their places; They went away at the light of Your arrows, At the radiance of Your gleaming spear.
Hab 3:12 In indignation You marched through the earth; In anger You trampled the nations.
Hab 3:13 You went forth for the salvation of Your people, For the salvation of Your anointed. You struck the head of the house of the evil To lay him open from thigh to neck. Selah.