Habakkuk 2 (NET)

Habakkuk 2:1¹I will stand at my watch post; I will remain stationed on the city wall. I will keep watching so I can see what he says to me and can know how I should answer when he counters my argument.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 21:8Isa 62:62 Sam 18:24Ps 85:8Ps 73:16-17Ps 5:32 Cor 13:3Jer 12:1Isa 21:11-12Job 23:5-7

Habakkuk 2:2²The Lord responded: “Write down this message. Record it legibly on tablets so the one who announces it may read it easily.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 30:8Rev 14:13Rev 1:18-19Deut 31:22Rev 21:5-8Dan 12:4Deut 27:8Isa 8:1Deut 31:19John 11:28-29

Habakkuk 2:3³For the message is a witness to what is decreed; it gives reliable testimony about how matters will turn out. Even if the message is not fulfilled right away, wait patiently; for it will certainly come to pass—it will not arrive late.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 27:14Heb 10:36-37Ezek 12:25Lam 3:25-26Ps 102:13Ps 130:5-6Dan 10:14Jas 5:7-8Luke 18:7-8Mic 7:7

Habakkuk 2:4⁴Look, the one whose desires are not upright will faint from exhaustion, but the person of integrity will live because of his faithfulness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 1:17Heb 10:38Gal 3:11-12Gal 2:16John 3:361 John 5:10-12Luke 18:14Dan 4:37Dan 5:20-231 Pet 5:5

Habakkuk 2:5⁵Indeed, wine will betray the proud, restless man! His appetite is as big as Sheol’s; like death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations; he seizes all peoples.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:11-12Prov 20:1Prov 27:20Prov 31:4-52 Kgs 14:10Dan 5:1-4Eccl 5:10Isa 10:7-13Isa 14:16-17Isa 16:6

Habakkuk 2:6⁶“But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings: ‘Woe to the one who accumulates what does not belong to him (How long will this go on?) — he who gets rich by extortion!’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 14:4-19Jer 29:22Jer 50:13Job 20:15-29Mic 2:4Num 23:71 Cor 7:29-311 Pet 4:7Ezek 32:21Hab 1:15

Habakkuk 2:7⁷Your creditors will suddenly attack; those who terrify you will spring into action, and they will rob you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 29:11 Thess 5:3Dan 5:25-31Eccl 10:8Isa 13:1-5Isa 13:16-18Isa 21:2-9Isa 41:25Isa 45:1-3Isa 46:11

Habakkuk 2:8⁸Because you robbed many countries, all who are left among the nations will rob you. You have shed human blood and committed violent acts against lands, cities, and those who live in them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 33:1Hab 2:17Jer 27:7Hab 2:10Isa 33:4Isa 47:6Jer 30:16Jer 50:10-11Jer 50:17-18Jer 50:28

Habakkuk 2:9⁹The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead. He does this so he can build his nest way up high and escape the clutches of disaster.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 49:16Jer 22:13-191 Kgs 21:19-241 Kgs 21:2-42 Kgs 5:20-27Acts 1:17-25Deut 7:25-26Gen 13:10-13Gen 19:26-38Isa 28:15

Habakkuk 2:10¹⁰Your schemes will bring shame to your house. Because you destroyed many nations, you will self-destruct.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 9:26Nah 1:141 Kgs 2:232 Kgs 10:7Hab 2:16Isa 14:20-22Isa 33:11Jer 22:30Jer 26:19Jer 36:31

Habakkuk 2:11¹¹For the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer back.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 19:40Josh 24:27Jas 5:3-4Job 31:38-40Gen 4:10Heb 12:24Rev 6:10

Habakkuk 2:12¹²Woe to the one who builds a city by bloodshed— he who starts a town by unjust deeds.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 3:10Dan 4:27-31Nah 3:1Jer 22:13-17Josh 6:26Rev 17:61 Kgs 16:34Ezek 24:9Gen 4:11-17John 11:47-50

Habakkuk 2:13¹³Be 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 51:58Isa 50:11Prov 21:30Gen 11:6-9Isa 41:5-8Isa 55:2Job 5:13-14Mal 1:4Ps 127:1-2Ps 39:6

Habakkuk 2:14¹⁴For recognition of the Lord ’s sovereign majesty will fill the earth just as the waters fill up the sea.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 11:9Ps 22:27Ps 72:19Isa 6:3Ps 86:9Zech 14:8-9Rev 11:15Ps 67:1-2Rev 15:4Ps 98:1-3

Habakkuk 2:15¹⁵“Woe to you who force your neighbor to drink wine — you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger so you can look at their naked bodies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 51:7Gen 9:22Hos 7:5Rev 17:2Rev 17:6Rev 18:32 Sam 11:132 Sam 13:26-28Exod 32:25Gen 19:32-35

Habakkuk 2:16¹⁶But you will become drunk with shame, not majesty. Now it is your turn to drink and expose your uncircumcised foreskin! The cup of wine in the Lord ’s right hand is coming to you, and disgrace will replace your majestic glory!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 47:3Nah 3:5-6Hos 4:7Hos 7:5Isa 20:4Isa 28:7-8Isa 49:26Isa 51:21-23Jer 25:15Jer 25:26-29

Habakkuk 2:17¹⁷For you will pay in full for your violent acts against Lebanon; terrifying judgment will come upon you because of the way you destroyed the wild animals living there. You have shed human blood and committed violent acts against lands, cities, and those who live in them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 2:8Ps 55:23Zech 11:1Jer 50:28Jer 50:33-34Jer 51:24Jer 51:34-37Prov 28:17Ps 137:8Rev 18:20-24

Habakkuk 2:18¹⁸What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 10:81 Cor 12:2Isa 44:9-10Zech 10:2Jer 2:27-28Isa 42:17Isa 45:16Ps 115:4-8Ps 135:15-182 Thess 2:9-11

Habakkuk 2:19¹⁹Woe to the one who says to wood, ‘Wake up!’— he who says to speechless stone, ‘Awake!’ Can it give reliable guidance? It is overlaid with gold and silver; it has no life’s breath inside it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 135:17Jer 10:41 Kgs 18:26-29Jer 10:9Acts 17:29Dan 3:1Dan 3:18Dan 3:29Dan 3:7Dan 5:23

Habakkuk 2:20²⁰But the Lord is in his majestic palace. The whole earth is speechless in his presence!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 2:13Zeph 1:7Ps 46:10Ps 11:4Isa 6:1Jonah 2:7Mic 1:2Ps 76:8-9Eph 2:21-22Ps 132:13-14