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13 Is it not from the Lord of hosts
    that peoples labor only to feed the flames,
    and nations weary themselves for nothing?
14 But the earth will be filled
    with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
    as the waters cover the sea.

15 “Alas for you who make your neighbors drink,
    pouring out your wrath[a] until they are drunk,
    in order to gaze on their nakedness!”

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:15 Or poison

13 Has not the Lord Almighty determined
    that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire,(A)
    that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?(B)
14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory(C) of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.(D)

15 “Woe to him who gives drink(E) to his neighbors,
    pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk,
    so that he can gaze on their naked bodies!

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