Orthodox Jewish Bible

Chabakuk 2:1-5 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

1. I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the matzor (rampart), and will watch to see what Hashem will speak in me, and what He shall answer to my tokhakhah (complaint).

2. And Hashem answered me, and said, Write the chazon, and make it plain upon tablets, so that a herald may run with it.

3. For the chazon is yet for a mo'ed (an appointed time); it speaks of HaKetz (the End), and does not lie; though it tarry, wait for him [Moshiach- see Sanhedrin 97b]; because he will surely come, and will not tarry.

4. Hinei, his nashamah which is puffed up is not upright in him; but the tzaddik shall live by his emunah. [Bereshis 15:6]

5. Yea also, yayin is a boged (betrayer, treacherous); he is a proud man, never at rest, who enlargeth his appetite as Sheol; like Mavet, it cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto it kol HaGoyim, and collecteth unto it kol HaAmim;