Habakkuk 2:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.”

Cross References

2 Kings 14:10

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?”

Psalm 138:6

For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly; but the haughty he knows from afar.

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Proverbs 21:24

“Scoffer” is the name of the proud, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.

Isaiah 14:6

that smote the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.

Isaiah 16:6

We have heard of the pride of Moab, how proud he was; of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence— his boasts are false.

Isaiah 2:17

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.

Isaiah 21:5

They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes, oil the shield!

Isaiah 5:14

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.

Isaiah 5:8

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.

Jeremiah 25:9

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.

Jeremiah 50:29

“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.

Jeremiah 51:39

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.

Habakkuk 1:15

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.

Habakkuk 1:17

Is he then to keep on emptying his net, and mercilessly slaying nations for ever?

Habakkuk 2:4

Behold, he whose soul is not upright in him shall fail, but the righteous shall live by his faith.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you;

James 4:6

But he gives more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”