16 You will be filled with disgrace rather than honor.
(A)Drink, you yourself, and [a]expose your own foreskin!
The (B)cup in the Lords 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 [c]overwhelm you,
And the devastation of its animals [d]by which you terrified them,
(E)Because of human bloodshed and (F)violence [e]done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.

18 “What (G)benefit is a carved image when its maker has carved it,
Or a cast metal image, a (H)teacher of falsehood?
For its maker (I)trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:16 Lit show yourself uncircumcised; DSS and ancient versions stagger
  2. Habakkuk 2:17 Lit of Lebanon
  3. Habakkuk 2:17 Lit cover
  4. Habakkuk 2:17 Lit which shattered them
  5. Habakkuk 2:17 Lit of the land

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