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The most popular Bible verses from Habakkuk 2

Found 20 Verses

Habakkuk 2:4

Bible Rank: 2,068
"See, he is puffed up; his desires are not upright – but the righteous will live by their faithfulness – " NIV
Look at the proud; his soul is not straight or right within him, but the [rigidly] just and the [uncompromisingly] righteous man shall live by his faith and in his faithfulness. [Rom. 1:17; Gal. 3:11.] AMP
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. KJV

Habakkuk 2:2

Bible Rank: 2,558
Then the LORD replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it." NIV
And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision and engrave it so plainly upon tablets that everyone who passes may [be able to] read [it easily and quickly] as he hastens by. AMP
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. KJV

Habakkuk 2:5

Bible Rank: 4,957
Indeed, wine betrays him; he is arrogant and never at rest. Because he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied, he gathers to himself all the nations and takes captive all the peoples. NIV
Moreover, wine and wealth are treacherous; the proud man [the Chaldean invader] is restless and cannot stay at home. His appetite is large like that of Sheol and [his greed] is like death and cannot be satisfied; he gathers to himself all nations and collects all people as if he owned them. AMP
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: KJV

Habakkuk 2:6

Bible Rank: 5,397
"Will not all of them taunt him with ridicule and scorn, saying, "Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion! How long must this go on?'"" NIV
Shall not all these [victims of his greed] take up a taunt against him and in scoffing derision of him say, Woe to him who piles up that which is not his! [How long will he possess it?] And [woe to him] who loads himself with promissory notes for usury! AMP
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! KJV

Habakkuk 2:8

Bible Rank: 6,542
Because you have plundered many nations, the peoples who are left will plunder you. For you have shed human blood; you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them. NIV
Because you [king of Babylon] have plundered many nations, all who are left of the people shall plunder you--because of men's blood and for the violence done to the earth, to the city and all the people who live in each city. AMP
Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. KJV

Habakkuk 2:7

Bible Rank: 7,054
Will not your creditors suddenly arise? Will they not wake up and make you tremble? Then you will become their prey. NIV
Shall [your debtors] not rise up suddenly who shall bite you, exacting usury of you, and those awake who will vex you [toss you to and fro and make you tremble violently]? Then you will be booty for them. AMP
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? KJV

Habakkuk 2:9

Bible Rank: 7,280
"Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, setting his nest on high to escape the clutches of ruin!" NIV
Woe to him who obtains wicked gain for his house, [who thinks by so doing] to set his nest on high that he may be preserved from calamity and delivered from the power of evil! AMP
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! KJV

Habakkuk 2:10

Bible Rank: 7,395
You have plotted the ruin of many peoples, shaming your own house and forfeiting your life. NIV
You have devised shame to your house by cutting off and putting an end to many peoples, and you have sinned against and forfeited your own life. AMP
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. KJV

Habakkuk 2:15

Bible Rank: 7,856
"Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gaze on their naked bodies!" NIV
Woe to him who gives his neighbors drink, who pours out your bottle to them and adds to it your poisonous and blighting wrath and also makes them drunk, that you may look on their stripped condition and pour out foul shame [on their glory]! AMP
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! KJV

Habakkuk 2:12

Bible Rank: 8,146
"Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice!" NIV
Woe to him who builds a town with blood and establishes a city by iniquity! AMP
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! KJV

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