Book 22 : NEVIIM - TREISAR - HABAKKUK - Chapter 002
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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
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And HaShem answered me, and said: 'Write the vision, and
make it plain upon tables, that a man may read it swiftly
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For the vision 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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Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him;
but the righteous shall live by his faith
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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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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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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 blood, and for the violence done
to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein
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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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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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Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and
establisheth a city by iniquity
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Behold, is it not of HaShem 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
glory of HaShem, as the waters cover the sea
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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
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Thou art filled with shame instead of glory, drink thou
also, and be uncovered; the cup of HaShem'S right hand shall be turned unto
thee, and filthiness shall be upon thy glory
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For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee, and the
destruction of the beasts, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, 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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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
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But HaShem is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep
silence before Him
Book 22 : NEVIIM - TREISAR - HABAKKUK - Chapter 002
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