Habakkuk 2:2

The Lord Assures Habakkuk

2:2 The Lord responded: 1 

“Write down this message! 2  Record it legibly on tablets,

so the one who announces 3  it may read it easily. 4 

Habakkuk 2:13

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. 5 

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

2 tn Heb “[the] vision.”

3 tn Or “reads from.”

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

5 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?”