Habakkuk 2:4-6

New Century Version

⁴The evil nation is very proud of itself;
it is not living as it should.
But those who are right with God will live by faith.

⁵“Just as wine can trick a person,
    those who are too proud will not last,
because their desire is like a grave’s desire for death,
    and like death they always want more.
They gather other nations for themselves
    and collect for themselves all the countries.
⁶But all the nations the Babylonians have hurt will laugh at them.
    They will make fun of the Babylonians
and say, ‘How terrible it will be for the one that steals many things.
    How long will that nation get rich by forcing others to pay them?’

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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.

⁶“Will not all of them taunt^(G) him with ridicule and scorn, saying,

“‘Woe to him who piles up stolen goods
and makes himself wealthy by extortion!^(H)
How long must this go on?’

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Footnotes

Habakkuk 2:4 Or faith

Habakkuk 2:4-6

King James Version

⁴Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

⁵Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

⁶Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

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