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14 Then people everywhere will know the Lord’s greatness.
    This news will spread like water covering the sea.

15 “How terrible for the nation that becomes angry and makes others suffer.
    In anger they knock other people to the ground.
    And they treat them as if they are naked and drunk.
16 You Babylonians will receive the Lord’s anger, not respect.
    This anger will be like a cup of poison in the Lord’s right hand.
You will taste this anger and fall to the ground like a drunk person.
    You will drink from this cup.
    You will receive disgrace, not respect.

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14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory(A) of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.(B)

15 “Woe to him who gives drink(C) to his neighbors,
    pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk,
    so that he can gaze on their naked bodies!
16 You will be filled with shame(D) instead of glory.(E)
    Now it is your turn! Drink(F) and let your nakedness be exposed[a]!(G)
The cup(H) from the Lord’s right hand is coming around to you,
    and disgrace will cover your glory.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:16 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, Aquila, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint) and stagger