Habakkuk 2:5

Modern English Version

Indeed, wine betrays the proud man, who does not stay at home. He enlarges his appetite as Sheol, and like death he is never satisfied. He gathers to himself all nations and collects for himself all peoples.

Cross References

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler; whoever is seduced by it is not wise.

Isaiah 21:5

Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat and drink. Arise, you princes, and oil the shields.

Isaiah 16:6

We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud, even of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath; but his lies shall not be so.

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more space where they may live alone in the midst of the land!

Isaiah 2:17

The loftiness of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day;

Ecclesiastes 5:10

The one who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; the one who loves money desires revenues in abundance. This also is vanity.

Psalm 138:6

Though the Lord is exalted, yet has He regard for the lowly, but the proud He knows from afar.

2 Kings 14:10

You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy respect and sit at home. Why stir up trouble and fall, you and Judah with you?”

James 4:6

But He gives more grace. For this reason it says: “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Thessalonians 4:11

to aspire to live a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

Habakkuk 2:4

Behold, his soul is lifted up; it is not upright in him; but the just shall live by his faithfulness.

Jeremiah 51:39

When they become heated up, I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:29

Call together the archers against Babylon. All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around; let no one escape. Recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her, for she has been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations; I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Proverbs 21:24

A proud and haughty man—“Scoffer” is his name, who acts with insolent pride.

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself and opened its mouth without measure; so their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he who rejoices shall descend into it.

Isaiah 14:6

he who struck the people in wrath with unceasing strokes, he who ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and no one hinders.

Habakkuk 1:15

They bring all of them up with a hook, they catch them in their net; they gather them in their dragnet. Therefore they rejoice and are glad.

Habakkuk 1:17

Shall they continue to empty their net, and continually kill the nations while not sparing anyone?