Habakkuk 2:7 Cross References - NSB

⁷ »Will your creditors and collection agents suddenly arise and make you tremble? Then you will become their prize.

¹ He who is often reprimanded and hardens his neck will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

⁸ He that digs a pit will fall into it. A serpent will bite whoever breaks through a hedge.

¹ The pronouncement Isaiah the son of Amoz saw in vision. ² »Lift up a standard high on the mountain. Raise your voice to them. Shake the hand so they may enter the doors of the nobles. ³ »I have commanded my consecrated ones. I have called my mighty warriors. My proud ones are to express my anger, those who rejoice in my majesty (excellency). ⁴ »Listen! A sound of tumult on the mountains is like that of many people! A sound of the uproar of kingdoms and nations gathered together! Jehovah of Hosts assembles (inspects) the army for battle. ⁵ »They come from a far country, from the extremities of the heavens (horizons). Jehovah and his instruments of indignation come to destroy the whole land.

¹⁶ »Their infant children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered and their wives raped. ¹⁷ »I will stir up the Medes against them. They will not value silver or take pleasure in gold. ¹⁸ »And their bows will mow down the young men. They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb. Nor will they have compassion on children.

² I have seen a vision of cruel events, a vision of betrayal and destruction. Army of Elam, attack! Army of Media, lay siege to the cities! God will put an end to the suffering that Babylon has caused. ³ What I saw and heard in the vision has filled me with terror and pain. My hips are full of pain and convulsions like that of a woman in labor. ⁴ My innermost being reels, horror overwhelms me. The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling. ⁵ They set the table, they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink; Rise up, captains, oil the shields, ⁶ For this is what Jehovah says to me: »Go, station the lookout, and let him report what he sees. ⁷ »When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, a train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let him pay close attention, very close attention.« ⁸ The watchman called out from the tower: »Sir, I stand on the watchtower every day. Every night, I stand guard at my post. ⁹ »Look! Here come chariots and horsemen in pairs. Then he said: ‘Babylon has fallen! She has fallen! All the idols they worship lie shattered on the ground.’«

²⁵ »I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes! One from the rising sun calls on my name. He treads on rulers as if they were mortar, as if he were a potter treading the clay.

¹ This is WHAT JEHOVAH SAYS ABOUT CYRUS, his anointed one: »I have held him by his right hand so he could conquer the nations ahead of him; that he could strip kings of their power, and open doors ahead of him so that the gates would not be shut. ² »I will go ahead of you, Cyrus. I will smooth out the rough places. I will break down the copper doors and cut through the iron bars. ³ »I will give you treasures from dark places and hidden stockpiles. You will know that I, Jehovah the God of Israel, have called you by name.

¹¹ I summon a bird of prey from the east. I summon a man to fulfill my purpose from a far off land. What I have said I will bring about. What I have determined (purposed) I will do.

¹¹ »Disaster will come upon you, and none of your magic can stop it. Ruin will come on you suddenly, ruin you never dreamed of!

¹⁴ »Gather together, all of you, and listen. What idol has revealed such things? Jehovah loves Cyrus. He will carry out Jehovah’s plan against Babylon. He will use his strength against the Babylonians. ¹⁵ »I alone have spoken. I have called him. I will bring him here and he will succeed.

¹⁷ »I am sending serpents against you, adders, for which there is no charm. They will bite you,« says Jehovah.

²¹ »Attack the land of Merathaim and the people who live in Pekod. Claim them for me by killing them with a sword, says Jehovah. Do everything I commanded you. ²² »The noise of battle and great destruction fills the land. ²³ »The hammer of the whole earth is broken and shattered. See how desolate Babylon is of all the nations! ²⁴ »I will set traps for you, Babylon. You will be caught, but you will not know it. You will be found and captured because you have opposed Jehovah.« ²⁵ Jehovah will open his armory and bring out the weapons of his fury, because Jehovah of Hosts has a job to do in the land of the Babylonians. ²⁶ Attack them from a distance, open their storehouses, pile up their corpses like piles of grain, claim them for me by destroying them, and do not leave anyone behind. ²⁷ Kill all their young bulls. Let them go to be slaughtered. How horrible it will be for them when their time has come, the time for them to be punished. ²⁸ Fugitives and refugees from Babylon are coming to Zion to tell about the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance for his temple. ²⁹ »Call together the archers, the soldiers with bows, against Babylon. Set up blockades around it. Do not let anyone escape. Pay the people of Babylon back for what they have done. Do to them what they did to others. They have disobeyed Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel. ³⁰ »That is why their young men will die in the streets, and all their soldiers will be silenced that day, declares Jehovah. ³¹ »I am against you, you arrogant city, declares the Lord Jehovah of Hosts. »Your day has come, the time when I will punish you. ³² »Those prideful people will stumble and fall, and there will be no one to help them get up. I will light a fire in their cities that will burn up everything around them.«

¹¹ »Jehovah has stirred up the kings of Media, because he intends to destroy Babylon. That is how he will take revenge for the destruction of his Temple. The attacking officers command: Sharpen your arrows! Get your shields ready!

²⁷ Raise your battle flag throughout the world. Blow the ram's horn among the nations. Prepare nations to attack Babylon. Tell the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz to attack it. Appoint a commander to lead the attack. Bring up horses like a swarm of locusts. ²⁸ Prepare nations to attack Babylon. Prepare the king of the Medes, their governors, all their deputies, and all the countries that they rule.

⁵⁷ »I will make their officials and wise men drunk, along with their governors, officers, and soldiers. They will fall into a deep sleep and never wake up,« proclaims the king, whose name is Jehovah of Hosts.

²⁵ »This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN. ²⁶ »This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end; ²⁷ »TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. ²⁸ »PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.« ²⁹ Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. ³⁰ In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain. ³¹ Darius the Mede received the kingdom. He was sixty-two years old.

⁹ What do you fabricate (impute) against Jehovah? He will exterminate it! Affliction will not rise up a second time. ¹⁰ Entangled like thorns and drunken from drink, they are consumed like dry stubble.

³ When they say, »Peace and security!« then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They will not escape.