Habakkuk 2:15
Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who adds thy venom, and also makes him drunken, that thou may look on their nakedness!
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
14For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Cross References
Genesis 19:32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lay with him, that we may preserve seed by our father.
Exodus 32:25And when Moses saw that the people were broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies,)
2 Samuel 13:26Then Absalom said, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said to him, Why should he go with thee?
Jeremiah 25:15For thus says LORD, the God of Israel, to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
Hosea 7:5On the day of our king the rulers made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He stretched out his hand with scoffers.
Revelation 17:6And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the sanctified, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And having seen her, I wondered with great amazement.
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 2:6-15
Judgment Predicted; Judgment of the King of Babylon. ( b. c. 600.) 5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! 7 Shall… Read the whole commentary →