KJV King James Version
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to [him], and makest [him] drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
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Habakkuk 2:15
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to [him], and makest [him] drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
WEB World English Bible
“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
ASV American Standard Version
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, to thee that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Woe to him who is giving drink to his neighbour, Pouring out thy bottle, and also making drunk, In order to look on their nakedness.
Surrounding context — Habakkuk 2
12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
13 Behold, [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?
14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to [him], and makest [him] drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing [shall be] on thy glory.
17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, [which] made them afraid, because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ה֚וֹיH1945 · hoywoe!מַשְׁקֵ֣הH8248 · sha.qahto water: wateringרֵעֵ֔הוּH7453 · re.aneighborמְסַפֵּ֥חַH5596 · sa.phachto attachחֲמָתְךָ֖H2534 · che.mahrageוְאַ֣ףH637 · aphalsoשַׁכֵּ֑רH7937 · sha.kharbe drunkלְמַ֥עַןH4616 · ma.anbecauseהַבִּ֖יטH5027 · na.vatto lookעַל־H5921 · aluponמְעוֹרֵיהֶֽם׃H4589 · ma.ornakedness
Cross-references
Jeremiah 51:7Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the LORD’S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.Genesis 9:22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.Revelation 17:2With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.Hosea 7:5In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.Revelation 17:6And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.Revelation 18:3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.Jeremiah 25:15For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.Genesis 19:32-35Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.2 Samuel 11:13And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.2 Samuel 13:26-28Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?Exodus 32:25And when Moses saw that the people [were] naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto [their] shame among their enemies:)
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