Catholic Public Domain Version

Habakkuk 2:13-20 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

13. Are not these things before the Lord of hosts? For the people will labor amid a great fire, and the nations will labor in emptiness, and they will fail.

14. For the earth shall be filled, that they might know the glory of the Lord, like the waters spreading over the sea.

15. Woe to anyone who gives a drink to a friend, releasing a drug and inebriating, so as to look upon their nakedness.

16. You are filled with disgrace in place of glory. So then, drink and fall fast asleep, for the cup of the right hand of the Lord will surround you, and a disgraceful vomit will cover your glory.

17. For the iniquity of Lebanon will cover you, and the devastation of animals which will deter them from the blood of men, and the iniquity of the earth and the city, and of all who dwell therein.

18. Of what benefit is the graven image? For its maker has formed it, a molten and imaginary deception. For its maker has hoped in a figment of his own creation, so as to make a dumb likeness.

19. Woe to him who says to wood, "Awaken," to the silent stone, "Arise." Is it able to teach? Behold, it has been entirely covered with gold and silver; and there is no spirit at all in its inner workings.

20. But the Lord is in his holy temple. May all the earth be silent before his face.