New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Habakkuk 1
14 Why have You made men like the fish of the sea, Like creeping things without a ruler over them?
15 The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook, Drag them away with their net, And gather them together in their fishing net. Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net And burn incense to their fishing net; Because through these things their catch is large, And their food is plentiful.
17 Will they therefore empty their net And continually slay nations without sparing?
Habakkuk 2
1 I will stand on my guard post And station myself on the rampart; And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me, And how I may reply when I am reproved.
2 Then the Lord answered me and said, "Record the vision And inscribe it on tablets, That the one who reads it may run.
3 "For the vision is yet for the appointed time; It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay.
4 "Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not right within him; But the righteous will live by his faith.
5 "Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man, So that he does not stay at home. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, And he is like death, never satisfied. He also gathers to himself all nations And collects to himself all peoples.
6 "Will not all of these take up a taunt-song against him, Even mockery and insinuations against him And say, ’Woe to him who increases what is not his- For how long- And makes himself rich with loans?’
7 "Will not your creditors rise up suddenly, And those who collect from you awaken? Indeed, you will become plunder for them.
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