Habakkuk 2:5

The Scriptures 2009

“And also, because wine betrays him, a man is proud, and he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his appetite as She’ol, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, and gathers to himself all nations and heaps up for himself all peoples.

Cross References

2 Kings 14:10

“You have certainly stricken Eḏom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be esteemed and stay in your house. But why do you stir up yourself to evil, that you should fall – you and Yehuḏah with you?”

Psalm 138:6

Though יהוה is exalted, He looks on the humble; But the proud He perceives from a distance.

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a scoffer, strong drink a brawler, And whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Proverbs 21:24

Proud, haughty, “Scoffer” is his name; He acts with arrogant pride.

Proverbs 27:20

She’ol and destruction are not satisfied; So the eyes of man are not satisfied.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He who loves silver is not satisfied with silver; nor he who loves wealth, and increase. That too is futile.

Isaiah 14:6

he who struck the people in wrath with ceaseless blows, he who ruled the nations in displeasure, is persecuted and no one restrains.

Isaiah 16:6

We have heard of the pride of Mo’aḇ – very proud – of his pride, his arrogance and his rage. His boastings are not true.

Isaiah 2:17

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the pride of men shall be brought low. And יהוה alone shall be exalted in that day,

Isaiah 21:5

Prepare the table, spread the mat, eat and drink. Arise, you princes, anoint the shield!

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore She’ol has made itself wide and opened its mouth without law. Their splendour and their crowd and their uproar, and he who is exulting within her, shall go down into it.

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

Jeremiah 25:9

see, I am sending and taking all the tribes of the north,’ declares יהוה, ‘and Neḇuḵaḏretstsar the sovereign of Baḇel, My servant, and shall bring them against this land and against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and shall put them under the ban, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and everlasting ruins.

Jeremiah 50:29

“Summon archers against Baḇel. All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around, let no one escape. Repay her according to her work, do to her according to all she has done. For she has been proud against יהוה, against the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl.

Jeremiah 51:39

“In their heat I prepare their feasts. And I shall make them drunk, so that they rejoice, and sleep a neverending sleep and not awake,” declares יהוה.

Habakkuk 1:15

The wicked foe has pulled all of them up with a hook, caught them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and exults.

Habakkuk 1:17

Is he therefore to keep on emptying his net, and killing nations without sparing?

Habakkuk 2:4

“See, he whose being is not upright in him is puffed up. But the righteous one lives by his steadfastness.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and to make it your ambition to live peaceably, and to attend to your own, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

James 4:6

But He gives greater favour. Because of this He says, “Elohim resists the proud, but gives favour to the humble.”