Habakuk 2

1I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the watchtower, Instead of how I should turn from my complaint , which is what the Hebrew text has, some modern versions have how I should answer when he replies to my complaint or how I should answer when he rebukes me . 2Yahweh answered me and said, 3For the vision is yet for a future time and will finally speak and not fail. 4Look! The one whose desires are not right within him is puffed up. But the righteous will live by his faith. 5For wine is a betrayer of the arrogant young man so that he will not abide, 6Will not all these create a saying to ridicule him and a taunting song about him, saying, 7Will the ones biting at you not rise up suddenly, and the ones terrifying you awaken? 8Because you have plundered many peoples, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you. 9'Woe to the one who carves out evil gains for his house, 10You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against yourself. 11For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters of timber will answer them, 12'Woe to the one who builds a city with blood, and who establishes a town in iniquity.' 13Is it not from Yahweh of hosts 14Yet the land will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh as the waters cover the sea. 15'Woe to the one who forces his neighbors to drink— over and you make them drunk There is some question about whether the Hebrew should be translated as anger or as wineskin . 16You will be filled with shame instead of glory. 17The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you and the destruction of animals will terrify you. 18What does the carved figure profit you? For the one who has carved it, or who casts a figure from molten metal, is a teacher of lies; 19'Woe to the one saying to the wood, Wake up! Or to the silent stone, Arise!' Do these things teach?