One often reproved, hardening his neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.
Habakkuk 2:7 - The Scriptures 2009 “Do not your creditors rise up suddenly? And those who make you tremble wake up and you be plunder for them? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Shall [your debtors] not rise up suddenly who shall bite you, exacting usury of you, and those awake who will vex you [toss you to and fro and make you tremble violently]? Then you will be booty for them. American Standard Version (1901) Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booty unto them? Common English Bible Won’t they suddenly rise up to bite you? Those who frighten you will awaken; you will become plunder for them. Catholic Public Domain Version Shall they not suddenly rise up, who would bite you, and be stirred up, who would tear you, so that you will be a prey for them? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee: and they be stirred up that shall tear thee, and thou shalt be a spoil to them? |
One often reproved, hardening his neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.
He who digs a pit falls into it, and whoever breaks through a wall is bitten by a snake.
And the envy of Ephrayim shall turn aside, and the adversaries of Yehuḏah be cut off. Ephrayim shall not envy Yehuḏah, and Yehuḏah not trouble Ephrayim.
“I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes; from the rising of the sun he calls on My Name. And he comes against princes as though mortar, as the potter treads clay.
calling a bird of prey from the east, the man who executes My counsel, from a distant land. Indeed I have spoken it, I also bring it to pass. I have planned it, I also do it.
“But evil shall come upon you, you not knowing from where it arises, and trouble fall upon you, you being unable to put it off, and ruin come upon you suddenly, which you know not.
Polish the arrows! Put on the shields! יהוה has stirred up the spirit of the sovereigns of the Medes. For His plan is against Baḇel to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of יהוה, the vengeance for His Hĕḵal.
“And I shall make her rulers drunk, and her wise men, her governors, and her deputies, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a lasting sleep, and not awake,” declares the Sovereign, whose Name is יהוה of hosts.
“For look, I am sending among you serpents, adders, which have no enchanter, and they shall bite you,” declares יהוה.
For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then suddenly destruction comes upon them, as labour pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape.