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Habakkuk 2 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:1 - On my charge I stand, and I station myself on a bulwark, and I watch to see what He doth speak against me, and what I do reply to my reproof.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:2 - And Jehovah answereth me and saith: 'Write a vision, and explain on the tables, That he may run who is reading it.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:3 - For yet the vision is for a season, And it breatheth for the end, and doth not lie, If it tarry, wait for it, For surely it cometh, it is not late.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:4 - Lo, a presumptuous one! Not upright is his soul within him, And the righteous by his stedfastness liveth.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:5 - And also, because the wine is treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:6 - Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo to him who is multiplying what is not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:7 - Do not thy usurers instantly rise up, And those shaking thee awake up, And thou hast been for a spoil to them?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:8 - Because thou hast spoiled many nations, Spoil thee do all the remnant of the peoples, Because of man's blood, and of violence to the land, To the city, and to all dwelling in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:9 - Wo to him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:10 - Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful is thy soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:11 - For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:12 - Wo to him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:13 - Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:14 - For full is the earth of the knowledge of the honour of Jehovah, As waters cover the bottom of a sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:15 - Wo to him who is giving drink to his neighbour, Pouring out thy bottle, and also making drunk, In order to look on their nakedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:16 - Thou hast been filled -- shame without honour, Drink thou also, and be uncircumcised, Turn round unto thee doth the cup of the right hand of Jehovah, And shameful spewing is on thine honour.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:17 - For violence to Lebanon doth cover thee, And spoil of beasts doth affright them, Because of man's blood, and of violence to the land, To the city, and to all dwelling in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:18 - What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation -- to make dumb idols?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:19 - Wo to him who is saying to wood, 'Awake,' 'Stir up,' to a dumb stone, It a teacher! lo, it is overlaid -- gold and silver, And there is no spirit in its midst.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:20 - And Jehovah is in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth!
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The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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