13Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people's labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?


In Context

10 You have plotted the ruin of many peoples, shaming your own house and forfeiting your life.

11 The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.

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

13 Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people's labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?

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

15 "Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gaze on their naked bodies.

Habakkuk 2:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:13Behold, [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?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:13Are not these things from the Lord of hosts? for the people shall labour in a great fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:13Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:13Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:13Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?