Habakkuk 2

1 I will take my stand on my watch-tower, and station myself on a turret. I will watch to see what the Lord will say to me, what answer he will make to my complaint.

upon charge my to stand: stand and to stand upon siege and to watch to/for to see: see what? to speak: speak in/on/with me and what? to return: reply upon argument my

2 Then the Lord answered me and said: Inscribe the vision plainly on tablets, so that even someone running by could read it.

and to answer me LORD and to say to write vision and to make plain upon [the] tablet because to run: run to call: read out in/on/with him

3 Though the vision waits for the time set, it hastens to fulfilment and will not fail; Though it linger long, wait for it. For it surely will come and will not be delayed.

for still vision to/for meeting: time appointed and to breathe to/for end and not to lie if to delay to wait to/for him for to come (in): fulfill to come (in): fulfill not to delay

4 The strength of the proud fails, but the upright lives by their faithfulness.

behold to swell not to smooth soul his in/on/with him and righteous in/on/with faithfulness his to live

5 Wealth is treacherous, the arrogant never have enough. They make their desire as wide as Sheol, are like death, unsatisfied, For they gather to themselves all the nations, bring together to themselves all peoples. (Sheol h7585)

and also for [the] wine to act treacherously great man proud and not to dwell which to enlarge like/as hell: Sheol soul: appetite his and he/she/it like/as death and not to satisfy and to gather to(wards) him all [the] nation and to gather to(wards) him all [the] people (Sheol h7585)

6 Shouldn’t everyone mock them? sing a taunt-song against them, and say: Woe to the person who amasses what is not theirs, and loads them self down with goods taken in pledge!

not these all their upon him proverb to lift: loud and mockery riddle to/for him and to say woe! [the] to multiply not to/for him till how and to honor: heavy upon him debt

7 Won’t your creditors suddenly rise, and those who will overthrow you awake, and you become their prey?

not suddenness to arise: rise to bite you and to awake to tremble you and to be to/for plunder to/for them

8 For as you have plundered many peoples, the survivors will prey upon you. You have shed blood and committed violence to the earth, peoples and their cities.

for you(m. s.) to loot nation many to loot you all remainder people from blood man and violence land: country/planet town and all to dwell in/on/with her

9 Woe to you who seeks unjust gain for your dynasty, who sets your nest on high to be safe from the reach of misfortune!

woe! to cut off: to gain unjust-gain bad: evil to/for house: household his to/for to set: make in/on/with height nest his to/for to rescue from palm bad: evil

10 You have planned only shame for your dynasty. You have destroyed many peoples, and brought guilt upon yourself;

to advise shame to/for house: household your to cut off people many and to sin soul: life your

11 the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the timber will answer it.

for stone from wall to cry out and rafter from tree: wood to answer her

12 Woe to the person who builds a city by bloodshed, and founds a town by crime

woe! to build city in/on/with blood and to establish: make town in/on/with injustice

13 while the peoples toil for what fires will consume, and the nations weary themselves for nothing! This the Lord of hosts has said,

not behold from with LORD Hosts and be weary/toil people in/on/with sufficiency fire and people in/on/with sufficiency vain to faint

14 and the earth will be as full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the seas are full of water.

for to fill [the] land: country/planet to/for to know [obj] glory LORD like/as water to cover upon sea

15 Woe to him who in fury gives drink to his neighbor to make him drunk, and see him naked.

woe! to water: drink neighbor his to attach rage your and also be drunk because to look upon nakedness their

16 You are filled with shame, not glory; drink yourself and be uncovered. The cup from the Lord’s hand will pass in turn to you, and shame will cover your glory!

to satisfy dishonor from glory to drink also you(m. s.) and be uncircumcised to turn: turn upon you cup right LORD and disgrace upon glory your

17 For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, the destruction of animals will terrify you, because you shed people’s blood on the earth, destroyed people and their cities.

for violence Lebanon to cover you and violence animal to to be dismayed them from blood man and violence land: country/planet town and all to dwell in/on/with her

18 What use is an idol? A human made it, a metal image. It cannot speak, it cannot teach truth, Why does its maker trust it?

what? to gain idol for to hew him to form: formed him liquid and to show deception for to trust to form: formed intention his upon him to/for to make idol mute

19 Woe to the person who says to a block, awake! to a dumb stone, arise! What can it teach? It may be set with gold and silver, but there is no breath at all within it.

woe! to say to/for tree: wood to awake [emph?] to rouse to/for stone silence he/she/it to show behold he/she/it to capture gold and silver: money and all spirit: breath nothing in/on/with entrails: among his

20 The Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!

and LORD in/on/with temple holiness his to silence from face: before his all [the] land: country/planet