Will not [a]your creditors rise up suddenly?
Will they not awaken who oppress you?
And you will become their booty.
(A)Because you have plundered many nations,
All the remnant of the people shall plunder you,
Because of men’s [b]blood
And the violence of the land and the city,
And of all who dwell in it.

“Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house,
That he may (B)set his nest on high,
That he may be delivered from the [c]power of disaster!

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:7 Lit. those who bite you
  2. Habakkuk 2:8 Or bloodshed
  3. Habakkuk 2:9 Lit. hand of evil

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