Habakkuk 2:5–13

5  “Moreover, wine2 is pa traitor,

an arrogant man who is never at rest.3

His greed is as wide as Sheol;

like death qhe has never enough.

rHe gathers for himself all nations

and collects as his own all peoples.”

Woe to the Chaldeans

6 Shall not all these stake up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,

t“Woe to him uwho heaps up what is not his own—

for vhow long?—

and wloads himself with pledges!”

7  xWill not your debtors suddenly arise,

and those awake who will make you tremble?

Then you will be spoil for them.

8  yBecause you have plundered many nations,

all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,

zfor the blood of man and yviolence to the earth,

to cities and all who dwell in them.

9  t“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,

ato bset his nest on high,

to be safe from the reach of harm!

10  You have devised shame for your house

cby cutting off many peoples;

you have forfeited your life.

11  For dthe stone will cry out from the wall,

and the beam from the woodwork respond.

12  t“Woe to him ewho builds a town with blood

and founds a city on iniquity!

13  Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts

that fpeoples labor merely for fire,

and nations weary themselves for nothing?