Habakkuk 2:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ “Alas for you who make your neighbors drink, pouring out your wrath until they are drunk, in order to gaze on their nakedness!”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ Woe to him who gives his neighbors drink, who pours out your bottle to them and adds to it your poisonous and blighting wrath and also makes them drunk, that you may look on their stripped condition and pour out foul shame [on their glory]!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, to thee that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Doom to the one who makes his companions drunk, pouring out your wrath in order to see them naked.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ Woe to anyone who gives a drink to a friend, releasing a drug and inebriating, so as to look upon their nakedness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend, and presenteth his gall, and maketh him drunk, that he may behold his nakedness.

Habakkuk 2:15 Cross References

Genesis 9:22

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.

2 Samuel 11:13

David invited him to eat and drink in his presence and made him drunk, and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

Exodus 32:25

When Moses saw that the people were out of control (for Aaron had lost control of them, prompting derision among their enemies),

Isaiah 28:7

These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink; they are confused with wine; they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision; they stumble in giving judgment.

Isaiah 28:8

All tables are covered with filthy vomit; no place is clean.

Isaiah 5:22

Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and valiant at mixing drink,

Jeremiah 25:15

For thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.

Jeremiah 51:7

Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine, and so the nations went mad.

Hosea 7:5

On the day of our king the officials became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.

Habakkuk 2:14

But the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Habakkuk 2:16

You will be sated with contempt instead of glory. Drink, you yourself, and stagger! The cup in the Lord’s right hand will come around to you, and shame will come upon your glory!

Revelation 17:2

with whom the kings of the earth have engaged in sexual immorality and with the wine of whose prostitution the inhabitants of the earth have become drunk.”

Revelation 17:6

And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly amazed.

Revelation 18:3

For all the nations have fallen from the wine of the wrath of her prostitution, and the kings of the earth have engaged in sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxury.”