Habakkuk 2:5-7

International Children’s Bible

⁵ “Wine can trick a person.
    In the same way the Babylonians are fooled by their pride.
Their desire for wealth is like a grave’s desire for death.
    They always want more and more.
And, like death, they collect other nations for themselves.
    They make them their own people.
⁶ But all the nations the Babylonians have hurt will laugh at them.
    They will make fun of the Babylonians.
They will say, ‘How terrible it will be for the nation that steals many things.
    How long will that nation get rich by forcing others to pay them?’

⁷ “One day the people you have taken money from will turn against you.
    They will realize what is happening and make you shake with fear.
    Then they will hurt you.