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Habakkuk 2:11-13
New English Translation
Habakkuk 2:11-13
New English Translation
11 For the stones in the walls will cry out,
and the wooden rafters will answer back.[a]
12 Woe to the one who builds a city by bloodshed—
he who starts[b] a town by unjust deeds.
13 Be sure of this! The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has decreed:
The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke;
their exhausting work will be for nothing.[c]
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 2:11 sn The house mentioned in vv. 9-10 represents the Babylonian empire, which became great through imperialism. Here the materials of this “house” (the stones in the walls, the wooden rafters) are personified as witnesses who testify that the occupants have built the house through wealth stolen from others.
- Habakkuk 2:12 tn Or “establishes”; or “founds.”
- Habakkuk 2:13 tn Heb “Is it not, look, from the Lord of hosts that the nations work hard for fire, and the peoples are exhausted for nothing?”
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