Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, is it not from YHWH of Hosts || And peoples are fatigued for fire, || And nations for vanity are weary?
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In Context
12Woe [to] him who is building a city by blood, || And establishing a city by iniquity.
14For the earth is full of the knowledge of the glory of YHWH, || As the waters cover over a sea.
Cross References
Genesis 11:6and YHWH says, “Behold, the people [is] one, and one language [is] to them all, and this it has dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.
Job 5:13Capturing the wise in their subtlety, || And the counsel of wrestling ones was hurried,
Psalms 127:1A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. BY SOLOMON. If YHWH does not build the house, || Its builders have labored at it in vain, || If YHWH does not watch a city, || A watchman has awoken in vain.
Isaiah 41:5Islands have seen and fear, || The ends of the earth tremble, || They have drawn near, indeed, they come.
Isaiah 55:2Why do you weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labor for that which is not for satiety? Listen diligently to Me, and eat good, || And your soul delights itself in fatness.
Jeremiah 51:64and said, Thus Babylon sinks, and she does not arise, because of the calamity that I am bringing in against it, and they have been weary.” Until now [are the] words of Jeremiah.
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 →