13 Behold, is it not of the [a]Lord of hosts, that the people shall labor in the very fire? the people shall even weary themselves for very vanity.

14 For the earth shall [b]be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor [c]drink: thou joinest thine heat, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest see their privities.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:13 Meaning, that God will not defer his vengeance long, but will come and destroy all their labors, as though they were consumed with fire.
  2. Habakkuk 2:14 In the destruction of the Babylonians his glory shall appear through all the world.
  3. Habakkuk 2:15 He reproacheth thus the king of Babylon, who as he was drunken with covetousness and cruelty, so he provoked others to the same, and inflamed them by his rage, and so in the end brought them to shame.

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