Habakkuk 2:1-15

I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the lookout tower.  I will watch to see what he will say to me  and what I should  reply about my complaint. The LORD answered me: Write down this vision;  clearly inscribe it on tablets so one may easily read it.  For the vision is yet for the appointed time;  it testifies about the end and will not lie. Though it delays, wait for it, since it will certainly come and not be late.  Look, his ego is inflated;  he is without integrity. But the righteous one will live by his faith.  , Moreover, wine   betrays; an arrogant man is never at rest.  He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death he is never satisfied.  He gathers all the nations to himself;  he collects all the peoples for himself. Won’t all of these take up a taunt against him,  with mockery and riddles about him? They will say, “Woe to him who amasses what is not his — how much longer?   — and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.”  Won’t your creditors suddenly arise, and those who disturb you wake up? Then you will become spoil for them.  Since you have plundered many nations,  all the peoples who remain will plunder you   — because of human bloodshed and violence  against lands, cities, and all who live in them.  Woe to him who dishonestly makes wealth for his house  , to place his nest on high, to escape the grasp of disaster!  You have planned shame for your house by wiping out many peoples and sinning against your own self. For the stones will cry out  from the wall, and the rafters will answer them from the woodwork. Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and founds a town with injustice!  Is it not from the  LORD of Armies that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?  For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the  LORD’s glory, as the water covers the sea.  Woe to him who gives his neighbors drink, pouring out your wrath  and even making them drunk, in order to look at their nakedness!