Then someone reported to David, ‘Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.’ ‘Lord,’ David pleaded, ‘please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness! ’
Habakkuk 2:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Is it not from the Lord of Armies that the peoples labour only to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, is it not by appointment of the Lord of hosts that the nations toil only to satisfy the fire [that will consume their work], and the peoples weary themselves only for emptiness, falsity, and futility? American Standard Version (1901) Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity? Common English Bible Look, isn’t this from the LORD of heavenly forces? Peoples grow weary from making just enough fire; nations become tired for nothing. Catholic Public Domain Version Are not these things before the Lord of hosts? For the people will labor amid a great fire, and the nations will labor in emptiness, and they will fail. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Are not these things from the Lord of hosts? for the people shall labour in a great fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint. |
Then someone reported to David, ‘Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.’ ‘Lord,’ David pleaded, ‘please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness! ’
No wisdom, no understanding, and no counsel will prevail against the Lord.
Look, all you who kindle a fire, who encircle yourselves with torches; walk in the light of your fire and of the torches you have lit! This is what you’ll get from my hand: you will lie down in a place of torment.
Why do you spend silver on what is not food, and your wages on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and you will enjoy the choicest of foods.
This is what the Lord of Armies says: Babylon’s thick walls will be totally demolished, and her high gates set ablaze. The peoples will have laboured for nothing; the nations will weary themselves only to feed the fire.
Then say, “In the same way, Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the disaster I am bringing on her. They will grow weary.” ’ The words of Jeremiah end here.
Though Edom says, ‘We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,’ the Lord of Armies says this: ‘They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country and the people the Lord has cursed for ever.