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Because you robbed many countries,[a]
all who are left among the nations[b] will rob you.
You have shed human blood
and committed violent acts against lands, cities,[c] and those who live in them.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:8 tn Or “nations.”
  2. Habakkuk 2:8 tn Or “peoples.”
  3. Habakkuk 2:8 tn Heb “because of the shed blood of humankind and violence against land, city.” The singular forms אֶרֶץ (ʾerets, “land”) and קִרְיָה (qiryah, “city”) are collective, referring to all the lands and cities terrorized by the Babylonians.

Because you have plundered many nations,
    the peoples who are left will plunder you.(A)
For you have shed human blood;(B)
    you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.(C)

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