Habakkuk 2:5

The English Standar Version

"Moreover, wine[2] is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest.[3] 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

Proverbs 27:20

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

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.[1]

Isaiah 21:5

They prepare the table, they spread the rugs,[1] they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes; oil the shield!

Isaiah 16:6

We have heard of the pride of Moab -- how proud he is! -- of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence; in his idle boasting he is not right.

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.

Isaiah 2:17

And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

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

Psalm 138:6

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

2 Kings 14:10

You have indeed struck down 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?"

James 4:6

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

1 Thessalonians 4:11

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

Habakkuk 2:4

"Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.[1]

Jeremiah 51:39

While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:29

"Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp around her; let no one escape. Repay 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 25:9

behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

Proverbs 21:24

"Scoffer" is the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure, and the nobility of Jerusalem[8] and her multitude will go down, her revelers and he who exults in her.

Isaiah 14:6

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

Habakkuk 1:15

He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad.

Habakkuk 1:17

Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?