The Lord Assures Habakkuk

2:2 The Lord responded:4

“Write down this message!5 Record it legibly on tablets,

so the one who announces6 it may read it easily.7

2:3 For the message is a witness to what is decreed;8

it gives reliable testimony about how matters will turn out.9

Even if the message10 is not fulfilled right away, wait patiently;11

for it will certainly come to pass—it will not arrive late.

2:4 Look, the one whose desires are not upright will faint from exhaustion,12

but the person of integrity13 will live14 because of his faithfulness.15

2:5 Indeed, wine will betray the proud, restless man!16

His appetite17 is as big as Sheol’s;18

like death, he is never satisfied.

He gathers19 all the nations;

he seizes20 all peoples.