Habakkuk

*I'll stand on my lookout point and climb the tall structure to listen for any messages. I'll carefully consider what I hear and decide how to respond when criticized.

*And God told me, "Write down your vision and clearly explain it on tables so that anyone who reads it can easily understand."

*The vision will happen soon, but it will take some time to be clear. Wait for it, because it will definitely arrive and won't delay.

*Look, the person's soul that feels proud isn't right with them. But those who are fair will survive based on their trust.

*Yes, because he goes too far with wine, he becomes arrogant and doesn't control his desires. He treats his wants like a never-ending pit of fire and is as unyielding as death. He can't be satisfied and gathers people from all nations, piling them up like a huge heap.

*Will they not all make a saying against him, and a mocking phrase, asking, 'How unfortunate for him who increases what isn't his!' For how long? And to him who covers himself in sticky mud.

*Will they not suddenly attack you, and wake up to bother you? And you will become their prize?

*Since you have destroyed many countries, now everyone else will destroy you. This is due to all the murder and violence in the land, city, and among its residents.

*Oh no, for the person who desires something bad and greedy for their home, hoping to build a safe place up high, trying to escape from the control of wrongdoing!

*You have brought disgrace to your home by causing many people to be removed, and you have committed a sin against yourself.

*The rock will shout from the wall, and the wood from the beam will reply.

*Woe to the person who builds a city using violence and establishes a place based on wrongdoing!

*Look, isn't it God who causes people to work hard in great trouble, and people tire themselves out for something that doesn't even matter?

*The world will be full of God's wonderful glory, just like how water covers the ocean.

*Oh no for the person who gives their neighbor alcohol, making them drunk too, just so they can see them naked.

*You feel embarrassed because of your glory. Drink too, and reveal yourself. The Lord's cup will be given to you, causing disgraceful vomiting in your pride.

*The violence from Lebanon will overtake you, along with the destruction caused by wild animals, due to human bloodshed, and also because of the violence within the land, city, and everyone living there.

*What good does a carved statue do for the one who made it, or a melted image and its creator, when they rely on them to create silent idols that tell no truths?

*Oh no, for the person who tells the wooden object to wake up and the mute rock to get up, expecting it to teach. It's covered in gold and silver but has no life inside it.

*But God is in his sacred place: everyone on Earth should be quiet in his presence.