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Habakkuk 2:7
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Won’t your creditors suddenly arise,and those who disturb you wake up?Then you will become spoil for them.
Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
Shall they not rise vp suddenly that shall bite thee? And awake, that shall vexe thee? And thou shalt be for booties vnto them?
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be spoil for them.
"Will your creditors not rise up suddenly, And those who collect from you awaken? Indeed, you will become plunder for them.
"One day the people from whom you have taken money will turn against you. They will realize what is happening and make you shake with fear. Then they will take everything you have.
"Will your creditors not rise up suddenly, And those who collect from you awaken? Then you will become plunder for them.
Shall they not rise vp suddenly, that shall bite thee? and awake, that shal stirre thee? and thou shalt be their praye?
"Will not your creditors rise up suddenly, And those who collect from you awaken? Indeed, you will become plunder for them.
Will not your creditors rise up suddenly,And those who make you tremble awaken?Indeed, you will become spoil for them.
Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awaken? Then you will become their prey.
But without warning, those you owe will demand payment. Then you will become a frightened victim.
Won't your own creditors suddenly stand, won't those who make you tremble wake up? You will become their spoil.
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and they awake up that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
"Strong man, you have taken money from people. One day they will wake up and realize what is happening, and they will stand against you. Then they will take things from you, and you will be very afraid.
Behold, they shall rise up suddenly, those who shall bite you, and awake those who shall cause you trouble, and you shall be for spoil to them.
But before you know it, you that have conquered others will be in debt yourselves and be forced to pay interest. Enemies will come and make you tremble. They will plunder you!
Will not your creditors suddenly rise up and awaken those who make you tremble? Then you shall be as plunder for them.
Shall not those who bite you rise up suddenly, and those who shake you be aroused, and you become a prize to him?
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booty unto them?
Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall exact interest of thee, and awake that shall violently shake thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
Shall they not rise vp sodenly that shall byte thee? and awake that shall stirre thee, & thou shalt be their pray?
For suddenly there shall arise up those that bite him, and they that plot against thee shall awake, and thou shalt be a plunder to them.
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
Whether not sudeynli thei schulen rise to gidere, that schulen bite thee? And thei schulen be reisid to-teerynge thee, and thou schalt be in to raueyn to hem; and thin aspieris in yuel schulen wake.
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite you, and awake that shall vex you, and you shall be for booty to them?
Shall they not rise suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall disturb thee, and thou shalt be for booties to them?
Your creditors will suddenly attack; those who terrify you will spring into action, and they will rob you.
Will not your creditors [fn] rise up suddenly?Will they not awaken who oppress you?And you will become their booty.
Will not those to whom you owe money rise up all at once? Will they not wake up and make you afraid? Then they will take what belongs to you.
Will not your own creditors suddenly rise, and those who make you tremble wake up? Then you will be booty for them.
Will not thy creditors, suddenly rise up? and they who shall violently shake thee, all at once become active? Then shalt thou serve for booties, unto them!
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee: and they be stirred up that shall tear thee, and thou shalt be a spoil to them?
Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be booty for them.
Do not thy usurers instantly rise up, And those shaking thee awake up, And thou hast been for a spoil to them?
O how sodenly wil they stonde vp, yt shal byte the, & awake, that shal teare ye in peces? yee thou shalt be their pray.
class="poetry"> What's God going to say to my questions? I'm braced for the worst. I'll climb to the lookout tower and scan the horizon. I'll wait to see what God says, how he'll answer my complaint. And then God answered: "Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run. This vision-message is a witness pointing to what's coming. It aches for the coming—it can hardly wait! And it doesn't lie. If it seems slow in coming, wait. It's on its way. It will come right on time. "Look at that man, bloated by self-importance— full of himself but soul-empty. But the person in right standing before God through loyal and steady believing is fully alive, really alive. "Note well: Money deceives. The arrogant rich don't last. They are more hungry for wealth than the grave is for cadavers. Like death, they always want more, but the ‘more' they get is dead bodies. They are cemeteries filled with dead nations, graveyards filled with corpses. Don't give people like this a second thought. Soon the whole world will be taunting them: "‘Who do you think you are— getting rich by stealing and extortion? How long do you think you can get away with this?' Indeed, how long before your victims wake up, stand up and make you the victim? You've plundered nation after nation. Now you'll get a taste of your own medicine. All the survivors are out to plunder you, a payback for all your murders and massacres. "Who do you think you are— recklessly grabbing and looting, Living it up, acting like king of the mountain, acting above it all, above trials and troubles? You've engineered the ruin of your own house. In ruining others you've ruined yourself. You've undermined your foundations, rotted out your own soul. The bricks of your house will speak up and accuse you. The woodwork will step forward with evidence. "Who do you think you are— building a town by murder, a city with crime? Don't you know that God -of-the-Angel-Armies makes sure nothing comes of that but ashes, Makes sure the harder you work at that kind of thing, the less you are? Meanwhile the earth fills up with awareness of God 's glory as the waters cover the sea. "Who do you think you are— inviting your neighbors to your drunken parties, Giving them too much to drink, roping them into your sexual orgies? You thought you were having the time of your life. Wrong! It's a time of disgrace. All the time you were drinking, you were drinking from the cup of God's wrath. You'll wake up holding your throbbing head, hung over— hung over from Lebanon violence, Hung over from animal massacres, hung over from murder and mayhem, From multiple violations of place and people. "What's the use of a carved god so skillfully carved by its sculptor? What good is a fancy cast god when all it tells is lies? What sense does it make to be a pious god-maker who makes gods that can't even talk? Who do you think you are— saying to a stick of wood, ‘Wake up,' Or to a dumb stone, ‘Get up'? Can they teach you anything about anything? There's nothing to them but surface. There's nothing on the inside. "But oh! God is in his holy Temple! Quiet everyone—a holy silence. Listen!"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
they: Proverbs 29:1, Isaiah 13:1-5, Isaiah 13:16-18, Isaiah 21:2-9, Isaiah 41:25, Isaiah 45:1-3, Isaiah 46:11, Isaiah 47:11, Isaiah 48:14, Isaiah 48:15, Jeremiah 50:21-32, Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:27, Jeremiah 51:28, Jeremiah 51:57, Daniel 5:25-31, Nahum 1:9, Nahum 1:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:3
bite: Ecclesiastes 10:8, Jeremiah 8:17
Reciprocal: Proverbs 13:11 - Wealth Jeremiah 27:7 - until
Cross-References
The third branch, called the Tigris, flowed east of the land of Asshur. The fourth branch is called the Euphrates.
The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.
He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him.
So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the opening.
So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.
Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died.
But Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground. "O God," they pleaded, "you are the God who gives breath to all creatures. Must you be angry with all the people when only one man sins?"
"O Lord , you are the God who gives breath to all creatures. Please appoint a new man as leader for the community.
how much less will he trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.
As long as I live, while I have breath from God,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Shall not they rise up suddenly that shall bite thee,.... Or, "thy usurers", or "creditors" d, as some render it; the Christians, whose money, goods, and substance, they had spoiled them of, but now should be repaid with great usury and gain; these, that is, their princes and emperors, as Constantine and Theodosius, rose up suddenly, and conquered the heathen emperors, and took away their power and authority from them, and their wealth and riches, and gave them to the Christians, what they and those under them had plundered them of:
and awake that shall vex thee, or "move thee" e; the emperor, from the throne of the empire; and other subordinate magistrates from their places of dignity, trust, and profit; the priests out of their temples; and change the face of things everywhere; and which is expressed in language agreeable to this, in Revelation 6:14, and has respect to the same times and things, "and the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together, and every mountain and island were moved out of their place"; which is to be understood of the fall of the Pagan Roman empire:
and thou shalt be for booties unto them? the wealth and riches found in the Roman empire, as it fell into the hands of Constantine, were converted to the use of the Christians for the building of their temples, and the maintenance of their ministers, the relief of their poor, and for the reparation of losses others had sustained under the persecutions: thus the Christian emperors rose up at once, and exerted themselves; and who before seemed to be asleep awoke, and seized upon the empire, and the riches of it, and divided the spoil among themselves and their people.
d × ×©××× "foeneratores tui, [seu] creditores tui", Cocceius, Van Till. e ×××¢××¢×× "qui commoveant te", Pagninus, Vatablus; so R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 56. 1. "excutientes", Cocceius, Van Till; "commoventes te", Burkius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Shall not they rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee? - The destruction of the wicked is ever sudden at last. Such was the flood Luke 17:26-27, the destruction of Sodom, of Pharaoh, of the enemies of Godâs people through the Judges, of Sennacherib, Nineveh, Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Such shall the end be Matthew 24:43-44; Matthew 25:13; Luke 17:26-30; Luke 21:34-35; 1Th 5:3; 2 Peter 3:10; Revelation 16:15. As he by his oppressions had pierced others (it is the word used of the oppression of usury), so should it be done to him. âThe Medes and Persians who were before subject to the Babylonian empire, and whose kings were subject to Nebuchudnezzar and his successors, rose up and awaked, i. e., stirred themselves up in the days of Belshazzar to rebel against the successors of Nebuchadnezzar which sat on his throne, like a man who awaketh from sleep.â The words âawake,â âarise,â are used also of the resurrection, when the worm of the wicked gnaweth and dieth not (See Isaiah 14:11; Isaiah 66:24).
And thou shall be for booties unto them? - The common phrase is modified to explain the manifoldness of the plunder which he should yield. So Jeremiah Jeremiah 50:10, âChaldaea shall be a spoil; all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.â See Cyr: âWe may hear Him who saith Matthew 12:29, âHow can one enter into a strong manâs house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.â For, as soon as He was born of the holy Virgin, He began to âspoil his goods.â For the Magi came from the East - and worshiped Him and honored Him with gifts and became a first-fruits of the Church of the Gentiles. And being vessels of Satan, and the most honored of all his members, they hastened to Christ.â
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 7. Shall they not rise up suddenly — Does not this refer to the sudden and unexpected taking of Babylon by Cyrus, whose troops entered into the city through the bed of the Euphrates, whose waters they had diverted by another channel; so that the Babylonians knew nothing of the matter till they saw the Persian soldiers rise up as in a moment, in the very heart of their city?
