Habakkuk 2:5-13 A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.

BBE⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself. ⁶ Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors! ⁷ 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? ⁸ Because you have taken their goods from great nations, all the rest of the peoples will take your goods from you; because of men's blood and violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it. ⁹ A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer! ¹⁰ You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul. ¹¹ For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork. ¹² A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing! ¹³ 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?