New King James Version
Habakkuk 2
1 And what I will answer when I am corrected. 2 That he may run who reads it. 3 It will not tarry. 4 But the just shall live by his faith. 5 And heaps up for himself all peoples. 6 And to him who loads himself with many pledges’? 7 And you will become their booty. 8 And of all who dwell in it. 9 That he may be delivered from the power of disaster! 10 And sin against your soul. 11 And the beam from the timbers will answer it. 12 Who establishes a city by iniquity! 13 And nations weary themselves in vain? 14 As the waters cover the sea. 15 That you may look on his nakedness! 16 And utter shame will be on your glory. 17 And of all who dwell in it. 18 To make mute idols? 19 Yet in it there is no breath at all. 20 Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”
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