Habakkuk 2:6-11

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁶ All these people will make up proverbs and mocking poems against him, won’t they? They will say, “Woe to the one who accumulates what is not his. (How long will this last?) Woe to the one who makes himself rich by foreclosing on collateral.” ⁷ Won’t your creditors rise up suddenly? Won’t those who cause you to tremble wake up? You will become plunder for them. ⁸ Because you robbed many countries, all those who are left among the nations will rob you. You have shed human blood and committed violence against the land, the cities, and all the people who live in them.

⁹ Woe to the person who piles up dishonest income for his household, in order to raise his nest up high, to deliver himself from disaster. ¹⁰ By wiping out many nations, you have planned shame for your own house. You have sinned against your own life. ¹¹ So the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer,