Habakkuk 2:5 Cross References - MSTC

⁵ Like as the wine deceiveth the drunkard, even so the proud shall fail and not endure. He openeth his desire wide up as the hell, and is as insatiable as death. All Heathen gathereth he to him, and heapeth unto him all people."

¹⁰ Because thou hast beaten the Edomites, therefore thine heart riseth. Be glorious: but tarry at home. For what needest thou to provoke to mischief — that thou shouldest be overthrown and Judah with thee?"

⁶ For though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly; as for the proud, he beholdeth them afar off.

¹ Wine is a voluptuous thing, and drunkenness causes sedition; whoso delighteth therein, shall never be wise.

²⁹ Where is woe? Where is sorrow? Where is strife? Where is brawling? Where are wounds without cause? Where be red eyes? ³⁰ Even among those that be ever at the wine, and seek excess. ³¹ Look not thou upon the wine, how red it is, and what a color it giveth in the glass. ³² It goeth down softly; but at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth as an adder. ³³ So shall thine eyes look unto strange women, and thine heart shall muse upon froward things.

²⁰ Like as hell and destruction are never full, even so the eyes of men can never be satisfied.

¹³ There are people that have a proud look, and cast up their eyelids. ¹⁴ This peoples' teeth are swords, and with their jawbones they consume and devour the simple of the earth, and the poor from among men. ¹⁵ This generation which is like a horse-leech, hath two daughters; the one is called "fetch hither," and the other "bring hither." ¹⁶ There be three things that are never satisfied, and the fourth sayeth never, "Hoo." The hell, a woman's womb, and the earth hath never water enough. As for fire, it sayeth never, "Hoo."

⁴ O Lemuel, give kings no wine, give kings and princes no strong drink; ⁵ Lest they being drunken forget the law, and regard not the cause of the poor, and of all such as be in adversity.

¹⁰ He that loveth money, will never be satisfied with money: and whoso delighteth in riches, shall have no profit thereof. Is not this also a vain thing?

¹¹ which casteth down the high looks of presumptuous persons, and bringeth low the pride of man, and the LORD only shall be exalted in that day. ¹² For the day of the LORD of Hosts shall go over all pride and presumption, upon all them that exalt themselves, and shall bring them all down:

¹⁷ And it shall bring down the pride of man, and lay man's presumptuousness full low, and the LORD shall only have the victory in that day.

⁸ Woe be unto you that join one house to another, and bring one land so nigh unto another, that the poor can get no more ground. Will ye dwell upon the earth alone?

¹¹ Woe unto them that rise up early to use themselves in drunkenness, and yet at night are more superfluous with wine. ¹² In those companies are harps and lutes, tabrets and pipes, and wine. But they regard not the work of the LORD, and consider not the operation of his hands.

²² Woe be unto them that are cunning men to sup out wine and expert to set up drunkenness. ²³ These give sentence with the ungodly for rewards, but condemn the just cause of the righteous.

⁷ Howbeit, his meaning is not so, neither thinketh his heart of this fashion. But he imagineth only, how he may overthrow and destroy much people, ⁸ for he sayeth, "Are not my princes all kings? ⁹ Is not Calno as easy to win as Carchemish? Is it harder to conquer Hamath than Arpad? Or is it lighter to overcome Damascus than Samaria?" ¹⁰ As who say, "I were able to win the kingdom of the Idolaters and their gods, but not Jerusalem and Samaria. ¹¹ Shall I not do unto Jerusalem and their Images, as I did unto Samaria and their Images?" ¹² Wherefore the LORD sayeth: As soon as I have performed my whole work upon the hill of Zion and Jerusalem, then will I also visit the noble and stout king of Assyria, with his wisdom and pride." ¹³ For he standeth thus in his own conceit: "This do I, through the power of my own hand, and through my wisdom: For I am wise, I am he that removes the lands of the people, I rob their princes: and like one of the worthies I drive them from their high seats.

¹⁶ They that seek thee, shall narrowly look upon thee, and think in themselves, saying, "Is this the man, that brought all lands in fear, and made the kingdoms afraid? ¹⁷ Is this he that made the world in a manner waste, and laid the cities to the ground, which let not his prisoners go home?"

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab: it is well known. He is very proud, presumptuous, arrogant, and full of indignation, and vain are his lies.

⁵ While they garnished the table, the watchman looked: and while he was eating and drinking it was said, "Up, ye Captains, take you to your shield."

⁹ Lo, I will send out, and call for all the people that dwell in the North, sayeth the LORD, and will prepare Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant, and will bring them upon this land, and upon all that dwell therein, and upon all the people that are about them, and will utterly root them out. I will make of them a wilderness, a mockage, and a continual desert.

¹⁷ Then took I the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the people drink thereof, unto whom the LORD had sent me. ¹⁸ But first the city of Jerusalem, and all the cities of Judah, their kings and princes: to make them desolate, waste, despised and cursed according as it is come to pass this day. ¹⁹ Yea, and Pharaoh the king of Egypt, his servants, his princes and his people altogether one with another; ²⁰ and all kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistine's land - Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod - ²¹ the Edomites, the Moabites, and the Ammonites; ²² all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the Isles that are beyond the sea; ²³ Dedan, Tema, Buz and the shaven Ishmaelites; ²⁴ all the kings of Arabia, and, generally, all the kings that dwell in the desert; ²⁵ all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, all the kings of the Medes; ²⁶ all kings toward the north, whether they be far or nigh, everyone with his neighbours; Yea, and all the kingdoms that are upon the whole earth. The king of Sheshach, said he, shall drink with them also. ²⁷ 'And say thou unto them: This is the commandment of the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Drink and be drunken, spew and fall, that ye never rise: and that through the sword which I will send among you. ²⁸ But if they will no receive the cup of thy hand, and drink it, then tell them: Thus doth the LORD of Hosts threaten you: drink it ye shall, and that shortly. ²⁹ For lo, I begin to plague the city that my name is given unto: think ye then, that I will leave you unpunished? Ye shall not go quit. For why? I call for a sword upon all the inhabiters of the earth, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

²⁹ 'Call up all the archers against Babylon! Pitch your tents round about her, that none escape!' Recompense her, as she hath deserved: and according as she hath done, so deal with her again. For she hath set up herself against the LORD, against the holy one of Israel.

³⁹ In their heat I shall set drink before them, and they shall be drunken for joy: Then shall they sleep an everlasting sleep, and never wake, sayeth the LORD.

¹ King Belshazzar made a great banquet to his thousand lords: with all these thousand he made great cheer, ² and when he was drunken with wine, he commanded to bring him the golden and silver vessels, which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple at Jerusalem: that the king and his lords with his queen and concubines might drink thereout. ³ So they brought the golden vessel, that was taken out of the temple of the LORD's house at Jerusalem. Then the king and his lords with his queen and concubines drunk out of them. ⁴ They drunk wine, and praised their Idols of gold, silver, copper, iron, wood and stone.

²⁰ But because his heart was so proud, and his stomach set so fast unto wilfulness: he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his majesty was taken from him. ²¹ He was shot out from among men, his heart was like a beast's heart, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: he was fain to eat grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till he knew, that the highest had power upon the kingdoms of men, and setteth over them, whom he list. ²² And thou, his son, O Belshazzar, for all this, hast not submitted thine heart, though thou knewest all these things: ²³ but hast magnified thyself above the LORD of heaven, so that the vessels of his house were brought before thee: that thou, and thy lords, with thy queen and concubines, might drink wine thereout: and hast praised the Idols of silver and gold, copper and iron, of wood and stone. As for the God in whose hand consisteth thy breath and all thy ways: thou hast not loved him.

⁹ What imagine ye against the LORD? He makes an utter end: ye shall not be troubled twice. ¹⁰ For like as the thorns that stick together, and as the dry straw, so shall the drunkards be consumed together, even when they be full.

⁴ Behold, whoso will not believe, his soul shall not prosper: but the just shall live by his faith.

⁸ Seeing thou hast spoiled many Heathen, therefore shall the remnant of the people spoil thee: because of men's blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the city and unto all them that dwell therein. ⁹ Woe unto him, that covetously gathereth evil gotten goods into his house: that he may set his nest on high, to escape from the power of misfortune. ¹⁰ Thou hast devised the shame of thine own house, for thou hast slain too much people, and hast willfully offended:

¹¹ and that ye study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you:

⁶ but giveth more grace?