Habakkuk 2:5-11 Now this arrogant and contemptuous man; this man of boasts shall not exceed a certain bound. He enlarged his soul like Hades and like death was not satisfied. When he shall have gathered to him all the nations and received for himself all the peoples,

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ Now this arrogant and contemptuous man; this man of boasts shall not exceed a certain bound. He enlarged his soul like Hades and like death was not satisfied. When he shall have gathered to him all the nations and received for himself all the peoples, ⁶ will they not all take up a parable against him and a fable to tell of him, saying, Woe to him who is heaping up for himself things which do not belong to him? For how long? And making his yoke grievously heavy. ⁷ For biters of him shall start up suddenly. And the plotters against thee shall be sober and thou shalt be plunder for them. ⁸ Because thou hast plundered many nations, all the remaining peoples shall plunder thee for the blood of mankind, and for the impieties of a land and a city and of all them who inhabit it. ⁹ Woe to him who coveteth wicked gain for his house, that he ¹⁰ may raise his nest high to be out of the reach of evils. Thou hast contrived shame for thy house; thou hast provoked many ¹¹ peoples and thy soul hath sinned; for a stone out of a wall will cry out, and a Worm from a beam will proclaim these things.