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Habakkuk 2:11-15 New English Translation (NET)

11. For the stones in the walls will cry out,and the wooden rafters will answer back.

12. The one who builds a city by bloodshed is as good as dead – he who starts a town by unjust deeds.

13. Be sure of this! The Lord who commands armies has decreed:The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.

14. For recognition of the Lord’s sovereign majesty will fill the earthjust as the waters fill up the sea.

15. “You who force your neighbor to drink wine are as good as dead – you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger,so you can look at their genitals.

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