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 doth speak against me, and what I do 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 Jehovah answereth me and saith: 'Write a vision, and explain on the tables, 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 breatheth for the end, and doth not lie, If it tarry, wait for it, For surely it cometh, 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

Lo, a presumptuous one! Not upright is his soul within him, And the righteous by his stedfastness liveth.

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 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, (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

Do not these — all of them — against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe [to] him who is multiplying [what is] not his? Till 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 not thy usurers instantly rise up, And those shaking thee awake up, And thou hast been for 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 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.

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 on high his nest, 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

Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful [is] thy soul.

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

For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth 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

Lo, is it not from Jehovah 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 full is the earth of the knowledge of the honour of Jehovah, As waters cover [the bottom of] 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 neighbour, Pouring out thy 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

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.

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 [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.

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 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?

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,' 'Stir up,' to a dumb stone, It a teacher! lo, 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 Jehovah [is] in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth!