These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Habakkuk 2
Tanakh 20 verses
- 1 I will stand upon my watch, And set me upon the tower, And will look out to see what He will speak by me, And what I shall answer when I am reproved.
- 2 And answered me, and said: ‘Write the , and make it plain upon tables, That a man may read it swiftly.
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For the is yet for the appointed time, And it declareth of the end, and doth not lie; Though it tarry, wait for it; Because it will surely come, it will not delay.’
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Psalm 27:14 Daniel 10:14 2 Thessalonians 2:6-8 Lamentations 3:25-26 Ezekiel 12:25 Isaiah 30:18 Hebrews 10:36-37 Psalm 102:13 Psalm 130:5-6 Daniel 8:19 Luke 18:7-8 Micah 7:7 Exodus 12:41 James 5:7-8 Acts 1:7 Daniel 11:35 2 Kings 6:33 2 Peter 2:3 Daniel 11:27 Luke 2:25 Daniel 8:17 Jeremiah 25:12-14 Daniel 9:24 Galatians 4:2 Acts 17:26 Jeremiah 27:7 - 4 Behold, his is puffed up, it is not upright in him; But the righteous shall live by his .
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Yea, moreover, wine is a treacherous dealer; The haughty man abideth not; He who enlargeth his desire as the nether-world, And is as death, and cannot be satisfied, But gathereth unto him all nations, And heapeth unto him all peoples.
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Proverbs 27:20 Proverbs 20:1 Ecclesiastes 5:10 Isaiah 5:11-12 Proverbs 23:29-33 Psalm 138:6 2 Kings 14:10 Proverbs 31:4-5 Isaiah 2:17 Jeremiah 51:39 Isaiah 14:16-17 Jeremiah 25:9 Isaiah 5:22-23 Proverbs 30:13-16 Isaiah 2:11-12 Nahum 1:9-10 Jeremiah 50:29 James 4:6 Daniel 5:20-23 Isaiah 21:5 Habakkuk 2:8-10 Habakkuk 2:4 Isaiah 10:7-13 Isaiah 5:8 Isaiah 16:6 Jeremiah 25:17-29 1 Thessalonians 4:11 Daniel 5:1-4 -
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Shall not all these take up a parable against him, And a taunting riddle against him, And say: ‘Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! How long? and that ladeth himself with many pledges!’
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- 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall exact interest of thee, And awake that shall violently shake thee, And thou shalt be for booties unto them?
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Because thou hast spoiled many nations, All the remnant of the peoples shall spoil thee; Because of men’s , and for the violence done to the land, To the city and to all that dwell therein.
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Isaiah 33:1 Habakkuk 2:17 Jeremiah 27:7 Zechariah 2:8-9 Jeremiah 50:10-11 Isaiah 33:4 Revelation 6:10 Jeremiah 50:28 Jeremiah 51:8 Jeremiah 51:48 Zechariah 1:15 Isaiah 47:6 Habakkuk 2:10 Jeremiah 51:34-35 Jeremiah 51:24 Jeremiah 50:17-18 Jeremiah 50:37 Revelation 18:20-24 Jeremiah 51:44 Psalm 137:8 Micah 4:11-13 Jeremiah 51:13 Jeremiah 50:33-34 Zechariah 14:12 Zechariah 12:2-4 Jeremiah 30:16 Jeremiah 51:55-56 -
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Woe to him that gaineth evil gains for his house, That he may set his nest on high, That he may be delivered from the power of evil!
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- 10 Thou hast devised shame to thy house, By cutting off many peoples, And hast forfeited thy life.
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For the stone shall cry out of the wall, And the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
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- 12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with , And establisheth a city by iniquity!
- 13 Behold, is it not of of hosts That the peoples labour for the fire, And the nations weary themselves for vanity?
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For the earth shall be filled With the knowledge of the of , As the waters cover the sea.
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- 15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, That puttest thy venom thereto, and makest him drunken also, That thou mayest look on their nakedness!
- 16 Thou art filled with shame instead of , Drink thou also, and be uncovered; The cup of Yahweh’S right hand shall be turned unto thee, And filthiness shall be upon thy .
- 17 For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee, And the destruction of the beasts, which made them afraid; Because of men’s , and for the violence done to the land, To the city and to all that dwell therein.
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What profiteth the graven image, That the maker thereof hath graven it, Even the molten image, and the teacher of lies; That the maker of his work trusteth therein, To make dumb idols?
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Isaiah 42:17 Zechariah 10:2 Jeremiah 10:8 Jeremiah 2:27-28 1 Corinthians 12:2 Isaiah 44:9-10 Isaiah 37:38 Jeremiah 10:3-5 Jonah 2:8 Revelation 13:11-15 Isaiah 46:1-2 Revelation 19:20 Jeremiah 10:14-15 Isaiah 45:20 Romans 6:21 Isaiah 46:6-8 Isaiah 1:31 Isaiah 45:16 Romans 1:23-25 Psalm 115:4-8 Isaiah 44:14-20 Jeremiah 50:2 Psalm 135:15-18 1 Timothy 4:1-2 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 - 19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood: ‘Awake’, To the dumb stone: ‘Arise!’ Can this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, And there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
- 20 But is in His ; Let all the earth keep silence before Him.