Habakuk - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 639

I stationed myself on my watch, And I stood on the tower and looked, To see what He might say to me, And what would return to my prayer. And the LORD gave an answer and said, 'Write the vision quite plain on a board, So that to it the reader may run, For quickly the vision will come, And pants to its aim, nor deceives; If it lingers, yet wait, for it comes, It advances—it will not delay! Look! Intlated his soul is not true; Though the righteous should live by his faith, And as treacherous wine elates man, And lets him not rest in content, But stretches his greed like the Grave, And like death he can never be filled, And collects to himself all the nations, And heaps up all peoples to him ; Will not they all make a satires on him P And enigmas to turn to contempt, 16 And say,_1Woe to him, who is great upon loans l— How long can he carry his debts? ’ Will they not suddenly rise for their interest P And awake with their terrors for you_? And you will become like their prey? Because you have spoiled many nations, All the remnants of Peoples shall spoil; For the murder of man and oppressing the land, And the City, and all who dwell there l Woe! He brought wicked gains to his house; To build up his nest on the height! But can he escape Sorrow’s hand? ro You prepare only shame for your House, Cutting off many Peoples, with loss to your soul; i 1 For the stone from the wall has cried out, And the beam of the timbers replied; 12 ‘ Woe! He has built up his City by blood, And constructed its bulwarks by crime I It is not from the .LORD of Sabaoth, That the Peoples are worn by the fire, And the Nations exhausted in smoke, But so that the earth may be filled With the knowledge and glory of GOD, As the waters spread over the Sea ! @mu1nri¤ii¤u nf ®zmpizrs. Woe l to you who give drink to your friends! You who pour out your poison I.0 them, {)3(—}