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Habakkuk 2:13

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2:13Be sure of this! The Lord who commands armies has decreed:

The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke;

their exhausting work will be for nothing.38

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  1. 38 Heb “Is it not, look, from the Lord of hosts that the nations work hard for fire, and the peoples are exhausted for nothing?”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts

that peoples labor merely for fire,

and nations weary themselves for nothing?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Has not the Lord Almighty determined

that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire,

that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Is it not from the Lord of Armies

that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire

and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?

NLTNew Living Translation

Has not the Lord of Heaven’s Armies promised

that the wealth of nations will turn to ashes?

They work so hard,

but all in vain!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Look! Is it not from Yahweh of hosts

that people labor for mere fire,

and nations exhaust themselves for mere vanity?

KJV 1900King James Version

Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts

That the people shall labour in the very fire,

And the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?