Habakkuk — 2
1 I will stand like a guard and watch, I will wait to see what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will say to me, I will wait and learn how 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH answers my questions.
YAHUAH Answers Habakkuk
2 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH answered me, “Write down what I show you. Write it clearly on a sign so that the message will be easy to read.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it delay, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.
4 “Look at the proud, his soul is not upright in him; But the righteous shall live by his Amunah.
5 “Wine can trick a person. In the same way a strong man’s pride can fool him, but he will not find Shalum, he is like death, he always wants more and more, and, like death he will never be satisfied, he will continue to defeat other nations and to make those people his prisoners.
6 But soon enough, all those people will laugh at him and tell stories about his defeat, they will laugh and say, ‘It’s too bad that the man who took so many things will not get to keep them! he made himself rich by collecting debts.’
7 “Strong man, you have taken money from people, One day they will wake up and realize what is happening, and they will stand against you, then they will take things from you, and you will be very afraid.
8 You have stolen things from many nations, so they will take much from you, you have killed many people and destroyed lands and cities, you have killed all the people there.
9 “Look at you people! You get rich by cheating people, and it hurts your own family! You build your houses high on the cliffs to protect yourself from danger.
10 You planned shameful things, and that will bring shame to your own family, you have done wrong, and it will cost you your life.
11 The stones of the walls will cry out against you, even the wooden rafters in your own house will prove that you are wrong.
12 “Look at them! They kill people to build their city and do wicked things to make their walled city strong.
13 But 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Tsaba'ut has decided that a fire will destroy everything that those people worked to build, all their work will be for nothing.
14 Then people everywhere will know about the Kabad of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, this news will spread just as water spreads out into the sea.
15 It will be very bad for those who become angry and make other people suffer, Like an angry drunk, they knock others to the ground and strip them naked, just to see their naked bodies.
16 “But they will know 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH’s anger, it will be like a cup of poison in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH’s right hand, they will taste that anger, and then they will fall to the ground like drunks. “Evil ruler, you will drink from that cup, you will get shame, not honor.
17 You hurt many people in Labanun and stole many animals there, so you will be afraid because of the people who died and because of the bad things you did to that country, you will be afraid because of what you did to those cities and to the people who lived there.”
The Message About Idols
18 Their idols will not help them, because it is only a statue that someone covered with metal, It is only a statue, so whoever made it cannot expect it to help, that statue cannot even speak!
19 Look at them! They speak to a wooden statue and tell it, “Get up! Rescue me.” They talk to a stone that cannot speak and say, “Wake up!” Do you not know those things cannot help you? That statue may be covered with gold and silver, but there is no life in it.
20 But 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH is in his Qadash temple, so the whole Arath should be silent in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH's presence and show 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH respect.