Habakkuk 2

1 upon charge my to stand: stand and to stand upon siege and to watch to/for to see: see what? to speak: speak in/on/with me and what? to return: reply upon argument my

On my charge I stand, and I station myself on a bulwark, and I watch to see what He speaks against me, and what I reply to my reproof.

2 and to answer me LORD and to say to write vision and to make plain upon [the] tablet because to run: run to call: read out in/on/with him

And YHWH answers me and says: “Write a vision, and explain on the tablets, That he may run who is reading it.

3 for still vision to/for meeting: time appointed and to breathe to/for end and not to lie if to delay to wait to/for him for to come (in): fulfill to come (in): fulfill not to delay

For yet the vision [is] for a season, And it breathes for the end, and does not lie, If it lingers, wait for it, For surely it comes, it is not late.

4 behold to swell not to smooth soul his in/on/with him and righteous in/on/with faithfulness his to live

Behold, a presumptuous one! His soul is not upright within him, And the righteous lives by his faith.

5 and also for [the] wine to act treacherously great man proud and not to dwell which to enlarge like/as hell: Sheol soul: appetite his and he/she/it like/as death and not to satisfy and to gather to(wards) him all [the] nation and to gather to(wards) him all [the] people (Sheol h7585)

And also, because the wine [is] treacherous, A man is haughty, and does not remain at home, Who has enlarged his soul as Sheol, And is as death that is not satisfied, And gathers to itself all the nations, And assembles to itself all the peoples, (Sheol h7585)

6 not these all their upon him proverb to lift: loud and mockery riddle to/for him and to say woe! [the] to multiply not to/for him till how and to honor: heavy upon him debt

Are these not—all of them—an allegory taken up against him, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe [to] him who is multiplying [what is] not his? Until when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

7 not suddenness to arise: rise to bite you and to awake to tremble you and to be to/for plunder to/for them

Do your usurers not instantly rise up, And those shaking you awake, And you have been a spoil to them?

8 for you(m. s.) to loot nation many to loot you all remainder people from blood man and violence land: country/planet town and all to dwell in/on/with her

Because you have spoiled many nations, All the remnant of the peoples spoil you, Because of man’s blood, and of violence [to] the land, [To] the city, and [to] all dwelling in it.

9 woe! to cut off: to gain unjust-gain bad: evil to/for house: household his to/for to set: make in/on/with height nest his to/for to rescue from palm bad: evil

Woe [to] him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set his nest on high, To be delivered from the hand of evil,

10 to advise shame to/for house: household your to cut off people many and to sin soul: life your

You have counseled a shameful thing to your house, To cut off many peoples, and your soul [is] sinful.

11 for stone from wall to cry out and rafter from tree: wood to answer her

For a stone cries out from the wall, And a beam from the wood answers it.

12 woe! to build city in/on/with blood and to establish: make town in/on/with injustice

Woe [to] him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity.

13 not behold from with LORD Hosts and be weary/toil people in/on/with sufficiency fire and people in/on/with sufficiency vain to faint

Behold, is it not from YHWH of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?

14 for to fill [the] land: country/planet to/for to know [obj] glory LORD like/as water to cover upon sea

For the earth is full of the knowledge of the glory of YHWH, As the waters cover over a sea.

15 woe! to water: drink neighbor his to attach rage your and also be drunk because to look upon nakedness their

Woe [to] him who is giving drink to his neighbor, Pouring out your bottle, and also making drunk, In order to look on their nakedness.

16 to satisfy dishonor from glory to drink also you(m. s.) and be uncircumcised to turn: turn upon you cup right LORD and disgrace upon glory your

You have been filled—shame without honor, Drink also, and be uncircumcised, Turn around to you does the cup of the right hand of YHWH, And shameful spewing [is] on your glory.

17 for violence Lebanon to cover you and violence animal to to be dismayed them from blood man and violence land: country/planet town and all to dwell in/on/with her

For violence [done to] Lebanon covers you, And spoil of beasts frightens them, Because of man’s blood, and of violence [to] the land, [To] the city, and [to] all dwelling in it.

18 what? to gain idol for to hew him to form: formed him liquid and to show deception for to trust to form: formed intention his upon him to/for to make idol mute

What profit has a carved image given That its former has hewn it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That the former has trusted on his own formation—to make mute idols?

19 woe! to say to/for tree: wood to awake [emph?] to rouse to/for stone silence he/she/it to show behold he/she/it to capture gold and silver: money and all spirit: breath nothing in/on/with entrails: among his

Woe [to] him who is saying to wood, Awake, To a mute stone, Stir up, It [is] a teacher! Behold, it is overlaid—gold and silver, And there is no spirit in its midst.

20 and LORD in/on/with temple holiness his to silence from face: before his all [the] land: country/planet

And YHWH [is] in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth!”