Habakkuk 2:4-6

Amplified Bible

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“Look at the proud one,
His soul is not right within him,
But the righteous will live by his faith [in the true God].^(A)
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“Moreover, wine is treacherous and betrays the arrogant man,
So that he does not stay at home.
His appetite is large like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He gathers to himself all nations
And collects to himself all peoples [as if he owned them].

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“Will all these [victims of his greed] not take up a taunting song against him,
And in mocking derision against him
Say, ‘^[a]Woe (judgment is coming) to him who increases that which is not his—
How long [will he possess it]?
And [woe to him who] makes himself wealthy with loans.’

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Footnotes

Habakkuk 2:6 The taunting song of the five woes pronounced against Babylon begins in v 6 and concludes at the end of the chapter.

Habakkuk 2:4-6

New International Version

⁴“See, the enemy is puffed up;
    his desires are not upright—
    but the righteous person^(A) will live by his faithfulness^[a]^(B)—
⁵indeed, wine^(C) betrays him;
    he is arrogant^(D) and never at rest.
Because he is as greedy as the grave
    and like death is never satisfied,^(E)
he gathers to himself all the nations
    and takes captive^(F) all the peoples.