Habakkuk 2:6 Cross References - Coverdale

⁶ But shall not all these take vp a prouerbe agaynst him, and mocke him with a byworde, and saye: Wo vnto him that heapeth vp other mens goodes? How longe wil he lade himself with thicke claye?

⁷ Then toke he vp his parable, & sayde: Balac the kynge of the Moabites hath caused to fet me out of Syria from the moutaynes towarde the East, (& sayde:) Come, curse me Iacob: come, defye me Israel.

¹⁸ And he toke vp his parable, & sayde: Ryse vp Balac & heare, marke my testimony wt thine eares thou sonne of Ziphor.

¹⁵ The riches yt he deuoureth, shall he perbreake agayne, for God shal drawe them out of his bely. ¹⁶ The serpentes heade shall sucke him, and the adders tonge shall slaye him: ¹⁷ so that he shal nomore se the ryuers and brokes of hony and butter: ¹⁸ But laboure shal he, & yet haue nothinge to eate. Greate trauayle shal he make for riches, but he shal not enioye them. ¹⁹ And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not buylded them. ²⁰ His bely coude neuer be fylled, therfore shall he perish in his couetousnesse. ²¹ He deuoured so gredely, yt he left nothinge behynde, therfore his goodes shal not prospere. ²² Though he had plenteousnesse of euerythinge, yet was he poore, & therfore he is but a wretch on euery syde. ²³ For though ye wicked haue neuer so moch to fyll his bely, yet God shal sende his wrath vpon him, and cause his battayll to rayne ouer him: ²⁴ so that yf he fle the yron weapens, he shall be shott with the stele bowe. ²⁵ The arowe shal be taken forth, & go out at his backe, and a glisteringe swearde thorow ye gall of him, feare shal come vpo him. ²⁶ There shal no darcknes be able to hyde him. An vnkyndled fyre shal consume him, and loke what remayneth in his house, it shall be destroyed. ²⁷ The heauen shall declare his wickednesse, & the earth shal take parte agaynst him. ²⁸ The substaunce that he hath in his house, shalbe taken awaye and perish, in the daye of the LORDES wrath. ²⁹ This is the porcion that ye wicked shal haue of God, and the heretage that he maye loke for of the LORDE.

⁶ Thou hast take the pledge from thy brethre for naught, & robbed the naked of their clothinge: ⁷ To soch as were weery, hast thou geue no water to drynke, thou hast withdrawe bred fro the hungrie: ⁸ Shulde soch one the as vseth violece, wroge & oppression (doinge all thinges of parcialyte, & hauynge respecte of personnes) dwell in the lode? ⁹ Thou hast sent wyddowes awaye emptie and oppressed the poore fatherlesse. ¹⁰ Therfore art thou compased aboute with snares on euery syde, & sodely vexed wt feare.

³ LORDE, how longe shal the vngodly, how longe shal the vngodly tryumphe?

¹⁶ Who so doth a poore man wronge to increase his owne riches, geueth (comoly) vnto the rich, and at the last commeth to pouerte himself.

⁴ then shalt thou vse this mockage vpon ye kinge of Babilon, & saye: How happeneth it yt ye oppressour leaueth of? It ye golden tribute come to an ende? ⁵ Doutles the LORDE hath broken the staff of the vngodly, & the cepter of ye lordly. ⁶ Which whe he is wroth, smyteth ye people wt durable strokes, & in his woders he persecuteth the, & tameth the cotinually. ⁷ And therfore ye whole worlde is now at rest and quyetnesse, & men synge for ioye. ⁸ Yee euen the Fyrre trees and Cedres of Libanus reioyse at thy fall, sayenge: Now yt thou art layde downe, there come no mo vp to destroye vs. ⁹ Hell also trembleth at thy commynge, All mightie men and prynces of the earth, steppe forth before the. All kynges of the earth stonde vp fro their seates, ¹⁰ that they maye all (one after another) synge and speake vnto the. Art thou wounded also as we? art thou become like vnto vs? ¹¹ Thy pompe and thy pryde is gone downe to hell: Mothes shalbe layde vnder the, & wormes shalbe thy coueringe. ¹² How art thou fallen from heauen (o Lucifer) thou faire mornige childe? hast thou gotten a fall euen to the grounde, thou that (notwithstondinge) dyddest subdue the people? ¹³ And yet thou thoughtest in thine harte: I will clymme vp in to heauen, and make my seate aboue the starres of God, I wyll syt vpon the glorious mount toward the North, ¹⁴ I wyll clymme vp aboue the cloudes, & wilbe like the highest of all. ¹⁵ Yet darre I laye, yt thou shalt be brought downe to the depe of hell. ¹⁶ They that se the, shal narowly loke vpo the, and thinke in them selues, sayenge: Is this the man, that brought all londes in feare, and made ye kingdomes afrayde: ¹⁷ Is this he that made the worlde in a maner waist, & and layde the cities to the grounde, which let not his prisoners go home? ¹⁸ How happeneth it, that the kynges of all people lie, euery one at home in his owne palace, with worshipe, ¹⁹ and thou art cast out of thy graue like a wilde braunch: like as dead mens rayment that are shott thorow with the swerde: as they that go downe to the stones of the depe: as a dead coarse that is troden vnder fete:

²⁰ The kepinge of dust, and folishnesse of herte hath turned them a syde: so that none of them can haue a fre conscience to thinke: maye not I erre?

² Wherfore do ye laye out yor moneye, for the thinge yt fedeth not, and spende youre laboure aboute the thinge that satisfieth you not? But herke rather vnto me, ad ye shal eate of the best, & youre soule shal haue hir pleasure in pleteousnes.

²² And all ye presoners of Iuda that are in Babilon, shal take vpo them this terme of cursinge, and saye: Now God do vnto the, as he dyd vnto Sedechias & Achab, whom the kinge of Babilon rosted in the fyre,

¹³ No man shal be able to dwell there, for the feare of ye LORDE, but she shal be whole desolate. All they that go by Babilon, shall stonde still, & be abashed, & shal wondre at all hir plages.

³⁴ Nabuchodonosor the kinge of Babilon hath deuoured and distroyed me, he hath made me an emptie vessell. He swalowed me vp like a Dragon, and fylled his bely with my delicates: he hath cast me out, ³⁵ he hath take my substaunce awaye, & the thinge that was left me hath he caried vnto Babilon, saieth the doughter, that dwelleth in Sion: Yee & my bloude also, vnto the Caldees, saieth Ierusalem.

²¹ The mightie worthies and his helpers, yt be gone downe and lye with the vncircumcised and with them that be slayne with ye swearde: shal speake to him out of the hell.

⁴ In that daye shall this terme be vsed, and a mournynge shal be made ouer you on this maner: We be vtterly desolate, the porcion off my people is translated. Whan wil he parte vnto vs the londe, that he hath taken from vs?

⁹ They come all to spoyle: out of them commeth an east wynde, which bloweth and gathereth their captyues, like as the sonde. ¹⁰ They shall mocke the kinges, and laugh the prynces to scorne. They shal not set by eny stronge holde, for they shal laye ordinaunce agaynst it, and take it.

¹⁵ They take vp all with their angle, they catch it in their net, & gather it in their yarne: wherof they reioyce and are glad.

¹³ Shal not the LORDE of hoostes bringe this to passe, that the laboures of the people shal be brent with a greate fyre, and that the thinge wher vpon the people haue weeried them selues, shall be lost?

²⁰ But God sayde vnto him: Thou foole, this night shal they requyre thy soule from the, and whose shal it be that thou hast prepared?

²⁹ Howbeit this I saye brethren: the tyme is shorte. Farthermore this is the meanynge, yt they which haue wyues, be as though they had none: ³⁰ and they that wepe, be as though they wepte not: and they that reioyse, be as though they reioysed not: & they that bye, be as though they possessed not: ³¹ & they that vse this worlde, be as though they vsed it not. For the fasshion off this worlde passeth awaye.

¹ Goo to now ye riche men. Wepe, and howle on yor wretchednes that shal come vpon you. ² Youre riches is corrupte, youre garmetes are motheaten. ³ Youre golde & yor siluer are cancred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnes vnto you, & shal eate youre flesshe, as it were fyre. Ye haue heaped treasure togedder in yor last dayes: ⁴ Beholde, the hyre of the labourers which haue reped downe youre feldes (which hyer is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth: and the cryes of the which haue reped, are entred in to the eares of the LORDE Sabaoth.

⁷ The ende of all thiges is at hade.Be ye therfore sober & watch vnto prayers: