Habakkuk 1:2

1:2 How long, Lord, must I cry for help?

But you do not listen!

I call out to you, “Violence!”

But you do not intervene! ¹ 

Habakkuk 2:2

The Lord Assures Habakkuk

2:2 The Lord responded: ² 

“Write down this message! ³  Record it legibly on tablets,

so the one who announces ⁴  it may read it easily. ⁵ 

Habakkuk 2:13-14

2:13 Be sure of this! The Lord who commands armies has decreed:

The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke;

their exhausting work will be for nothing. ⁶ 

2:14 For recognition of the Lord’s sovereign majesty will fill the earth

just as the waters fill up the sea. ⁷ 

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¹ tn Or “deliver.”

² tn Heb “the Lord answered and said.” The redundant expression “answered and said” has been simplified in the translation as “responded.”

³ tn Heb “[the] vision.”

⁴ tn Or “reads from.”

⁵ tn Heb “might run,” which here probably means “run [through it quickly with one’s eyes],” that is, read it easily.

⁶ tn Heb “Is it not, look, from the Lord of hosts that the nations work hard for fire, and the peoples are exhausted for nothing?”

⁷ tn Heb “for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, just as the waters cover over the sea.”