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12 Woe to the one who builds a city by bloodshed—

he who starts[a] a town by unjust deeds.
13 Be sure of this! The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has decreed:
The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke;
their exhausting work will be for nothing.[b]
14 For recognition of the Lord’s sovereign majesty will fill the earth
just as the waters fill up the sea.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:12 tn Or “establishes”; or “founds.”
  2. Habakkuk 2:13 tn Heb “Is it not, look, from the Lord of hosts that the nations work hard for fire, and the peoples are exhausted for nothing?”
  3. Habakkuk 2:14 tn Heb “for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, just as the waters cover over the sea.”