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16 You will be filled with disgrace rather than glory.
Now you yourself (A)drink and [a]expose your own nakedness.
The (B)cup in Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you,
And (C)utter disgrace will come upon your glory.
17 For the (D)violence [b]done to Lebanon will cover you,
And the devastation of its beasts [c]by which you terrified them,
(E)Because of human bloodshed and (F)violence [d]done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.

18 “What (G)profit is the graven image when its maker has engraved it,
Or a molten image, a (H)teacher of [e]lies?
For its maker (I)trusts in his own making
When he fashions speechless idols.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:16 As in DSS and ancient versions; or stagger; lit show yourself uncircumcised
  2. Habakkuk 2:17 Lit of Lebanon
  3. Habakkuk 2:17 Lit which terrified them
  4. Habakkuk 2:17 Lit of the land
  5. Habakkuk 2:18 Lit a lie