Habakkuk 2:2–8

The Righteous Shall Live by His Faith

2 And the Lord answered me:

k“Write the vision;

make it plain on tablets,

so he may run who reads it.

3  For still lthe vision awaits its appointed time;

it hastens to the end—it will not lie.

If it seems slow, mwait for it;

nit will surely come; it will not delay.

4  “Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,

but othe righteous shall live by his faith.1

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.