Habakkuk 2:5 Cross References - CAB

⁵ But the arrogant man and the scorner, the boastful man, shall not finish anything; who has enlarged his desire as the grave, and like death he is never satisfied, and he will gather to himself all the nations, and will receive to himself all the peoples.

¹⁰ You have attacked and wounded Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: stay at home and glorify yourself; for why are you quarrelsome to your hurt? So both you and Judah with you will fall.

⁶ For the Lord is on high, and yet regards the lowly; and He knows high things from afar off.

¹ Wine is a mocker, and strong drink full of violence; but every fool is entangled with them.

²⁹ Who has woe? Who has trouble? Who has quarrels? And who complains and disputes? Who has bruises without a cause? Whose eyes are livid? ³⁰ Are not those of them that stay long at wine? Are not those of them that haunt the places where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, and converse with them openly. ³¹ For if you should set your eyes on bowls and cups, you shall afterwards go more naked than a pestle. ³² But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent. ³³ Whenever your eyes shall behold a strange woman, then your mouth shall speak perverse things.

²⁰ Hell and destruction are not filled, neither are the eyes of men ever satisfied. ^(27:20A) He that fixes his eye is an abomination to the Lord, and the uninstructed do not restrain their tongue.

¹³ A wicked generation have lofty eyes, and exalt themselves with their eyelids. ¹⁴ A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw-teeth as knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men. ¹⁵ The leech had three dearly beloved daughters, and these three did not satisfy her; and the fourth was not contented so as to say, Enough. ¹⁶ The grave, and the love of a woman, and the earth not filled with water; water also and fire will not say, It is enough.

⁴ Princes are prone to anger: let them then not drink wine: ⁵ lest they drink, and forget wisdom, and not be able to judge the poor rightly.

¹⁰ He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who has loved gain, in the abundance thereof. This also is vanity.

¹¹ For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. ¹² For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon everyone that is proud and haughty, and upon everyone that is high and lifted up, and they shall be brought down;

¹⁷ And every man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall fall; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

⁸ Woe to them that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbor's; will you dwell alone upon the land?

¹¹ Woe to them that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who wait at it till evening; for the wine shall inflame them. ¹² For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes; but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of His hands.

²² Woe to the strong of you that drink wine, and the mighty that mingle strong drink; ²³ who justify the ungodly for rewards, and take away the righteousness of the righteous.

⁷ But he does not mean so, neither did he devise thus in his heart; but his mind shall change, and that to destroy nations not a few. ⁸ And if they should say to him, You alone are ruler; ⁹ then shall he say, Have I not taken the country above Babylon and Chalanes, where the tower was built? And have I not taken Arabia, and Damascus, and Samaria? ¹⁰ As I have taken them, I will also take all the kingdoms; howl, you idols in Jerusalem, and in Samaria. ¹¹ For as I did to Samaria and her idols, so will I also do to Jerusalem and her idols. ¹² And it shall come to pass, when the Lord has finished doing all things on Mount Zion and Jerusalem, that I will visit upon the proud heart, even upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes. ¹³ For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of my understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength.

¹⁶ They that see you shall marvel at you, and say, This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake; ¹⁷ that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity.

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud. I have cut off his pride; your prophecy shall not be thus, no not thus.

⁵ Prepare the table; eat, drink. Arise, you princes, and prepare your shields.

⁹ behold I will send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it. And I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

¹⁷ So I took the cup out of the Lord's hand, and caused the nations to whom the Lord sent me to drink: ¹⁸ Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of Judah, and his princes, to make them a desert place, a desolation, and a hissing. ¹⁹ And Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his nobles, and all his people; ²⁰ and all the mixed multitude, and all the kings of the Philistines, namely Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Azotus, ²¹ and Edom, and the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, ²² and the kings of Tyre, and the kings of Sidon, and the kings in the country beyond the sea, ²³ and Dedan, Tema, Buz, and everyone that is shaved round about the face, ²⁴ and all the mixed multitude dwelling in the wilderness, ²⁵ and all the kings of Aelam, and all the kings of the Persians, ²⁶ and all the kings from the north, the far and the near, each one with his brother, and all the kingdoms which are on the face of the earth. ²⁷ And you shall say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty: Drink, and be drunk; and you shall vomit and fall, and shall by no means rise, because of the sword which I send among you. ²⁸ And it shall come to pass, when they refuse to take the cup out of your hand, to drink it, that you shall say, Thus said the Lord; You shall surely drink. ²⁹ For I am beginning to afflict the city which is called by My name, and you shall by no means be held guiltless: for I am calling a sword upon all that dwell upon the earth.

²⁹ Summon many against Babylon, everyone that bends the bow. Camp against her round about; let none of her people escape. Render to her according to her works, according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.

³⁹ In their excitement I will give them a drink, and make them drunk, that they may be stupefied, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and not awake, says the Lord.

¹ Belshazzar the king made a great supper for his thousand nobles, and there was wine before the thousand. ² And Belshazzar, drinking, gave orders as he tasted the wine that they should bring the gold and silver vessels, which Nebuchadnezzar his father had brought forth from the temple in Jerusalem; that the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his concubines, should drink out of them. ³ So the gold and silver vessels were brought which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple of God in Jerusalem; and the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his concubines drank out of them. ⁴ They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of iron, and of wood, and of stone.

²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was emboldened to act proudly, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his honor was taken from him. ²¹ And he was driven forth from men. And a heart was given to him after the nature of wild beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. And they fed him with grass like an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whomever He chooses. ²² And you accordingly, his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart before God: do you not know all this? ²³ And you have exalted yourself against the Lord God of heaven; and they have brought before you the vessels of His house, and you, your nobles, your mistresses, and your concubines have drunk wine out of them; and you have praised the gods of gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, and which hear not, and know not: and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.

⁹ What do you devise against the Lord? He will make a complete end: He will not take vengeance by affliction twice at the same time. ¹⁰ For the enemy shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.

⁴ If he should draw back, My soul has no pleasure in him: but the just shall live by My faith.

⁸ Because you have plundered many nations, all the nations that are left shall plunder you, because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell in it. ⁹ Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evils. ¹⁰ You have devised shame to your house, you have utterly destroyed many nations, and your soul has sinned.

¹¹ and that you aspire to be quiet, and to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,

⁶ But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."