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Habakkuk 2:19

Context

2:19 The one who says to wood, ‘Wake up!’ is as good as dead 1 

he who says 2  to speechless stone, ‘Awake!’

Can it give reliable guidance? 3 

It is overlaid with gold and silver;

it has no life’s breath inside it.

Habakkuk 1:7

Context

1:7 They are frightening and terrifying;

they decide for themselves what is right. 4 

Habakkuk 1:10

Context

1:10 They mock kings

and laugh at rulers.

They laugh at every fortified city;

they build siege ramps 5  and capture them.

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[2:19]  1 tn Heb “Woe [to] the one who says.” On the term הוֹי (hoy) see the note on the word “dead” in v. 6.

[2:19]  2 tn The words “he who says” in the translation are supplied from the previous parallel line.

[2:19]  3 tn Though the Hebrew text has no formal interrogative marker here, the context indicates that the statement should be taken as a rhetorical question anticipating the answer, “Of course not!” (so also NIV, NRSV).

[1:7]  4 tn Heb “from him his justice, even his lifting up, goes out.” In this context שְׂאֵת (sÿet) probably has the nuance “authority.” See R. D. Patterson, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah (WEC), 150.

[1:10]  7 tn Heb “they heap up dirt.” This is a reference to the piling up of earthen ramps in the process of laying siege to a fortified city.



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