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πYea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

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Yea also.

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he transgresseth.

Prov. 20:1• ¹Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. (Prov. 20:1)

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Prov. 23:29‑33• ²⁹Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
³⁰They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
³¹Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
³²At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
³³Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. (Prov. 23:29‑33)

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Prov. 31:4‑5• ⁴It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
⁵Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. (Prov. 31:4‑5)

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Isa. 5:11‑12,22‑23• ¹¹Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
¹²And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
²²Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
²³Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! (Isa. 5:11‑12,22‑23)

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Isa. 21:5• ⁵Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. (Isa. 21:5)

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Jer. 51:39• ³⁹In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord. (Jer. 51:39)

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Dan. 5:1‑4,23• ¹Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
²Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
³Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
⁴They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
²³But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: (Dan. 5:1‑4,23)

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Nah. 1:9‑10• ⁹What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
¹⁰For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. (Nah. 1:9‑10)

a proud man.

Hab. 2:4• ⁴Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. (Hab. 2:4)

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Psa. 138:6• ⁶Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off. (Psa. 138:6)

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Prov. 30:13‑14• ¹³There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
¹⁴There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men. (Prov. 30:13‑14)

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Isa. 2:11‑12,17• ¹¹The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
¹²For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
¹⁷And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. (Isa. 2:11‑12,17)

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Isa. 16:6• ⁶We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so. (Isa. 16:6)

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Jer. 50:29• ²⁹Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel. (Jer. 50:29)

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Dan. 5:20‑23• ²⁰But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
²¹And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
²²And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
²³But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: (Dan. 5:20‑23)

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James 4:6• ⁶But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. (James 4:6)

keepeth.

2 Kings 14:10• ¹⁰Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee? (2 Kings 14:10)

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1 Thess. 4:11• ¹¹And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; (1 Thess. 4:11)

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who.

Isa. 5:8• ⁸Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! (Isa. 5:8)

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Isa. 10:7‑13• ⁷Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
⁸For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
⁹Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
¹⁰As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
¹¹Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
¹²Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
¹³For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: (Isa. 10:7‑13)

as hell.

Prov. 27:20• ²⁰Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. (Prov. 27:20)

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Prov. 30:15‑16• ¹⁵The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
¹⁶The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough. (Prov. 30:15‑16)

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Eccl. 5:10• ¹⁰He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. (Eccl. 5:10)

gathereth.

Hab. 2:8‑10• ⁸Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
⁹Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
¹⁰Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. (Hab. 2:8‑10)

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Isa. 14:16‑17• ¹⁶They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
¹⁷That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? (Isa. 14:16‑17)

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Jer. 25:9,17‑29• ⁹Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
¹⁷Then took I the cup at the Lord's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me:
¹⁸To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
¹⁹Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
²⁰And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
²¹Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
²²And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
²³Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
²⁴And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
²⁵And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
²⁶And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
²⁷Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
²⁸And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
²⁹For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts. (Jer. 25:9,17‑29)

• Then we find a remarkable series of what may be called strophes or stanzas, from verse 6 to the end of the chapter — a number of woes in regular succession, with a reason annexed to each case. Verse 5 seems to be a general introduction. (“Habakkuk 2” by W. Kelly)

• The evil must be judged before the blessing can be introduced in power. Consequently the evil is now fully set out before us. The reason why the Chaldean must be taken in hand by God flow simply and necessarily from the moral nature of God — the impossibility that He should sustain one whom He had employed as His instrument when the instrument dared to exalt itself to the dishonour of God. (“Habakkuk 2” by W. Kelly)

• His unsatisfied craving for power over others leads him to act with hellish desire to bring all nations under his control. (“Habakkuk” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And moreover, the wine is treacherous: he is a proud manc, and keepeth not at rest, he enlargeth his desired as Sheol, and he is like death and cannot be satisfied; and he assembleth unto him all nations, and gathereth unto him all peoples.

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Geber. Job 3.3.

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Or "appetite"; lit. "soul." see Isa. 5.14.