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  • Habakkuk 2:5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    •  5 Indeed, because the wine is treacherous,

      The arrogant man will not reach his goal.

      He makes his appetite* as large as the Grave;*

      He is like death and cannot be satisfied.

      He keeps gathering all the nations

      And collecting for himself all the peoples.+

  • Habakkuk 2:5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    •  5 Indeed, because the wine is treacherous,

      The arrogant man will not reach his goal.

      He makes his appetite* as large as the Grave;*

      He is like death and cannot be satisfied.

      He keeps gathering all the nations

      And collecting for himself all the peoples.+

  • Habakkuk 2:5
    The Bible in Living English
    • 5 how much less shall a faithless brute be pleasing, a haughty man, who has distended his appetite like the grave, being like death insatiable, and has gathered in all the nations and swept up all the peoples!

  • Habakkuk 2:5
    American Standard Version
    • 5 Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous, a haughty man, that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.

  • Habakkuk 2:5
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 5 Moreover also when wine betrayeth A man is arrogant And findeth no rest,—Because he hath enlarged like hades his desire, Yea he is like death and cannot be satisfied,—But hath gathered unto himself all the nations, And assembled unto himself all the peoples.

  • Habakkuk 2:5
    King James Version
    • 5 Yea 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:

  • Habakkuk
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 2:5 w07 11/15 10; w00 2/1 15-16; w89 5/15 25

  • Habakkuk
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 2:5 w80 6/15 31; w65 49; g63 12/22 6; w62 59; w35 151

  • Habakkuk
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 2:5

      The Watchtower,

      11/15/2007, p. 10

      2/1/2000, pp. 15-16

      5/15/1989, p. 25

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