Discovery BoxHabakkuk 2:7 
Context2:7 Your creditors will suddenly attack; 1
those who terrify you will spring into action, 2
and they will rob you. 3
Habakkuk 2:9
Context2:9 The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead. 4
He does this so he can build his nest way up high
and escape the clutches of disaster. 5
Habakkuk 2:13
Context2:13 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
1 tn Heb “Will not your creditors suddenly rise up?” The rhetorical question assumes the response, “Yes, they will.” The present translation brings out the rhetorical force of the question by rendering it as an affirmation.
sn Your creditors will suddenly attack. The Babylonians are addressed directly here. They have robbed and terrorized others, but now the situation will be reversed as their creditors suddenly attack them.
2 tn Heb “[Will not] the ones who make you tremble awake?”
3 tn Heb “and you will become their plunder.”
4 tn Heb “Woe [to] the one who profits unjustly by evil unjust gain for his house.” On the term הוֹי (hoy) see the note on the word “dead” in v. 6.
5 tn Heb “to place his nest in the heights in order to escape from the hand of disaster.”
sn Here the Babylonians are compared to a bird, perhaps an eagle, that builds its nest in an inaccessible high place where predators cannot reach it.
6 tn Heb “Is it not, look, from the
