Habakkuk 2:6
Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’Habakkuk 2:6 · WEB
This verse in other languages
- ગુજરાતી — હબાક્કુક ૨:૬
- શું લોકો તેની વિરુદ્ધ દ્રષ્ટાંત આપીને તથા મહેણાં મારીને એવું નહિ કહે કે, ‘જે પોતાનું નથી તેનો સંગ્રહ કરનારને અફસોસ? ક્યાં સુધી તું ગીરવે લીધેલી વસ્તુનું વજન ઊંચકાવે છે?’
- हिन्दी — हबक्कूक २:६
- क्या वे सब उसका दृष्टान्त चलाकर, और उस पर ताना मारकर न कहेंगे “हाय उस पर जो पराया धन छीन छीनकर धनवान हो जाता है? कब तक? हाय उस पर जो अपना घर बन्धक की वस्तुओं से भर लेता है!”
In context
4Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
5Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to himself all peoples.
6Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
7Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
8Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
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