Habakkuk 2:13 “Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people o…”

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?

World English Bible

Behold, isn’t it from the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

American Standard Version

Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Geneva Bible 1599

Beholde, is it not of the Lord of hostes that the people shall labour in ye very fire? the people shall euen weary themselues for very vanitie.

Darby Translation

Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

Young's Literal Translation

Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?

Bible in Basic English

See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

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Cross references

“is it”

Jeremiah 51:58 Proverbs 21:30 Isaiah 50:11 Genesis 11:6–9 Psalm 39:6 Isaiah 41:5–8

Jeremiah 51:58 · BSB

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”

Proverbs 21:30 · BSB

There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.

Isaiah 50:11 · BSB

Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who array yourselves with firebrands, walk in the light of your fire and of the firebrands you have lit! This is what you will receive from My hand: You will lie down in a place of torm…

Genesis 11:6–9 · BSB

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Psalm 39:6 · BSB

Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

Isaiah 41:5–8 · BSB

The islands see and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!

14For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

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