Common English Bible

Habakkuk 2:7-12 Common English Bible (CEB)

7. Won’t they suddenly rise up to bite you?Those who frighten you will awaken;you will become plunder for them.

8. Since you yourself have plundered many nations,all the rest of the peoples will plunder youbecause of the human bloodshedand the violence done to the earth,to every village, and to all its inhabitants.

9. Doom to the one making evil gain for his own house,for putting his own nest up high,for delivering himself from the grasp of calamity.

10. You plan shame for your own house,cutting off many peoplesand sinning against your own life.

11. A stone will cry out from a village wall,and a tree branch will respond.

12. Pity the one building a city with bloodshedand founding a village with injustice.