You have indeed smitten Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home; for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”
Habakkuk 2:5 - Revised Standard Version Moreover, wine is treacherous; the arrogant man shall not abide. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations, and collects as his own all peoples.” Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Moreover, wine and wealth are treacherous; the proud man [the Chaldean invader] is restless and cannot stay at home. His appetite is large like that of Sheol and [his greed] is like death and cannot be satisfied; he gathers to himself all nations and collects all people as if he owned them. American Standard Version (1901) Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous, a haughty man, that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples. Common English Bible Moreover, wine betrays an arrogant man. He doesn’t rest. He opens his jaws like the grave; like death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all nations to himself and collects all peoples for himself. Catholic Public Domain Version And in the manner that wine deceives the heavy drinker, so will the arrogant man be deceived, and he will not be honored. He has enlarged his life like hellfire, and himself like death, and he is never fulfilled. And he will gather to himself all nations, and he will amass for himself all peoples. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And as wine deceiveth him that drinketh it: so shall the proud man be, and he shall not be honoured: who hath enlarged his desire like hell: and is himself like death, and he is never satisfied: but will gather together unto him all nations, and heap together unto him all people. |
You have indeed smitten Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home; for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”
For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly; but the haughty he knows from afar.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
“Scoffer” is the name of the proud, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
that smote the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.
We have heard of the pride of Moab, how proud he was; of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence— his boasts are false.
And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the pride of men shall be brought low; and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes, oil the shield!
Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure, and the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude go down, her throng and he who exults in her.
Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.
behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, and for Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about; I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.
“Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp round about her; let no one escape. Requite her according to her deeds, do to her according to all that she has done; for she has proudly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, till they swoon away and sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, says the Lord.
He brings all of them up with a hook, he drags them out with his net, he gathers them in his seine; so he rejoices and exults.
Is he then to keep on emptying his net, and mercilessly slaying nations for ever?
Behold, he whose soul is not upright in him shall fail, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you;
But he gives more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”