NITHYAM SONGSHabakkuk 2
World English Bible (WEB) • 20 verses
1I will stand at my watch and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
2The LORD answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
RelatedIsaiah 30:8 · Revelation 14:13 · Revelation 1:18-19 · Deuteronomy 31:22 · Revelation 21:5-8 · Daniel 12:4
3For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
RelatedPsalms 27:14 · Hebrews 10:36-37 · Lamentations 3:25-26 · Ezekiel 12:25 · Psalms 102:13 · Psalms 130:5-6
4Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
RelatedRomans 1:17 · Hebrews 10:38 · Galatians 3:11-12 · Galatians 2:16 · John 3:36 · 1 John 5:10-12
5Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to himself all peoples.
RelatedProverbs 27:20 · Isaiah 5:11-12 · Proverbs 20:1 · Proverbs 31:4-5 · Ecclesiastes 5:10 · Isaiah 2:11-12
6Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
7Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
RelatedProverbs 29:1 · Isaiah 46:11 · Isaiah 48:14-15 · Isaiah 21:2-9 · Daniel 5:25-31 · Isaiah 13:1-5
8Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
RelatedIsaiah 33:1 · Habakkuk 2:17 · Jeremiah 27:7 · Isaiah 47:6 · Zechariah 2:8-9 · Jeremiah 51:34-35
9Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
RelatedJeremiah 49:16 · Jeremiah 22:13-19 · Genesis 19:26-38 · Isaiah 47:7-9 · 1 Kings 21:2-4 · Psalms 52:7
10You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
11For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
12Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
13Behold, isn’t it from the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
14For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
15“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
RelatedJeremiah 51:7 · Genesis 9:22 · Revelation 17:2 · Revelation 17:6 · Revelation 18:3 · Hosea 7:5
16You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink and be exposed! The cup of the LORD’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
RelatedIsaiah 47:3 · Nahum 3:5-6 · Isaiah 28:7-8 · Philippians 3:19 · Revelation 18:6 · Jeremiah 25:26-29
17For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals will terrify you, because of men’s blood and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.
RelatedHabakkuk 2:8 · Zechariah 11:1 · Psalms 55:23 · Jeremiah 50:33-34 · Proverbs 28:17 · Jeremiah 51:34-37
18“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
RelatedJeremiah 10:8 · 1 Corinthians 12:2 · Zechariah 10:2 · Isaiah 44:9-10 · Jeremiah 2:27-28 · Isaiah 42:17
19Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.
RelatedPsalms 135:17 · Jeremiah 10:4 · 1 Kings 18:26-29 · Jeremiah 10:9 · Daniel 3:7 · Revelation 17:4
20But the LORD is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.