Habakkuk 2:16

Habakkuk 2:16 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)You will be filled with shame instead of glory. Now it is your turn! Drink and let your nakedness be exposed! The cup from the Lord’s right hand is coming around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
• English Standard Version (ESV)You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision! The cup in the Lord's right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory!
• New King James Version (NKJV)You are filled with shame instead of glory. You also—drink! And be exposed as uncircumcised! The cup of the Lord’s right hand will be turned against you, And utter shame will be on your glory.

Context of Habakkuk 2:16

14But people everywhere will one day recognize the Lord's great glory. Those people will fill the whole earth, as the waters fill the sea. 15It will be very bad for you! You cause your neighbours to become drunk. You are so angry that you make them drink too much wine. You are happy when they are so drunk that you can see their bare bodies. But it is you who will become ashamed, not great. You will become drunk so that people see you with no clothes on! The Lord has a cup of wine in his right hand. He is ready to give it to you as a punishment. You will no longer be great, but you will be ashamed. 17You have done cruel things to the people in Lebanon. You destroyed their animals. The Lord will punish you for the things that you have done, and you will be very afraid. You have murdered people. You have destroyed the land and the towns and the people who live in them. 18What value does an idol have? What help can it give? Somebody has made it as the image of a false god. It can only tell false messages. Why should its maker trust it for help? He has used wood or metal to make it and it cannot speak!

Habakkuk 2:16 word by word

שָׂבַ֤עְתָּ קָלוֹן֙ מִכָּב֔וֹד שְׁתֵ֥ה גַם־אַ֖תָּה וְהֵֽעָרֵ֑ל תִּסּ֣וֹב עָלֶ֗יךָ כּ֚וֹס יְמִ֣ין יְהוָ֔ה וְקִיקָל֖וֹן עַל־כְּבוֹדֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thou art filledשָׂבֵעַώâba‛ ώâbêa‛ · to satisfyH7646
• with shameקָלוֹןqâlôn · dishonorH7036
• for gloryכָּבוֹדkâbôd kâbôd · gloryH3519
• drinkשָׁתָהshâthâh · to drinkH8354
• thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncoveredעָרַל‛ârêl · be uncircumcisedH6188
• the cupכּוֹסkôs · cupH3563
• of the Lord’sיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• right handיָמִיןyâmîyn · rightH3225
• shall be turnedסָבַבsâbab · to turn: turnH5437
• unto thee, and shameful spewingקִיקָלוֹןqîyqâlôn · disgraceH7022

Cross-references for Habakkuk 2:16

• Proverbs 3:35Wise people will receive honour. But fools will only have shame.
• Isaiah 47:3Stand there with your body completely bare! Everybody will see your great shame. I will punish you for your sins, and nobody will escape.’
• Hosea 4:7The more priests that there are among you, the more sins they do against me. They should have received honour as priests, but I will make them ashamed.
• Philippians 3:19In the end, God will destroy them. Their stomach is what they worship. They are proud of things that should make them ashamed. Their thoughts are full of things that belong to this world.
• Psalms 75:8The Lord holds a cup of punishment in his hand. It is full of wine, with spices in it. The Lord pours out his anger from this cup. All the wicked people in the world will have to drink it. They will drink all of it, so that none remains.
• Isaiah 49:26I will cause your cruel enemies to destroy themselves. There will be so much blood that it will seem like wine. They will seem like people who have become drunk. Then people everywhere will recognize that I am the Lord. They will know that I am your Saviour and your Redeemer, and I am the Mighty One of Jacob.’
• Isaiah 51:21So listen to this, you people who are in trouble. You walk like drunk people, but wine has not done that to you.
• Jeremiah 25:26all the kings of the nations in the north, those who live near together and those who live far apart; the people of all the other kingdoms everywhere on the earth. Finally, the king of Babylon will have to drink the wine of the Lord's great anger.
• Jeremiah 51:57I will make Babylon's officers and its wise men drunk, as well as its rulers, its leaders and its soldiers. They will sleep for ever and they will never wake up again.’ That is what the King says. His name is the Lord Almighty.
• Revelation 18:6Yes, punish the people of that city. Do to them the same things that they have done to others. Punish them with twice the bad things that they themselves have done. She caused people to drink pain from her cup. Now make her drink twice as much pain for herself!
• Isaiah 20:4The king of Assyria will take away people from Egypt as prisoners. He will do the same thing to the people of Cush. Young people and old people will go as prisoners to Assyria. They will not wear any clothes or shoes. People will see their bare bodies. The Egyptians will be very ashamed.
• Nahum 3:5This is why I am against you, says the Lord Almighty. I will make you like a woman whose skirt is up over her face. I will show the countries that you are like that woman. You will be like a woman who is not wearing any clothes.
• Jeremiah 25:27Then the Lord said to me, ‘Tell them that the Lord Almighty, Israel's God, says, “Drink the wine from this cup until you become drunk. Drink so much that you are sick. Drink it until you fall down and cannot get up again, because you know that I will send armies to attack you.”
• Isaiah 28:7But now wine causes the leaders in Ephraim to become drunk. They cannot walk in a straight line because they drink too much beer. Beer causes the priests and the prophets to fall over. Wine confuses their minds. When they see visions, they cannot understand them. When they judge people, they cannot decide what is right.
• Hosea 7:5On a day when the king has a feast, the leaders drink too much wine. The king and the leaders join with other people to do foolish things.

Commentaries on Habakkuk 2:16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16The cup of the Lord's right hand - Among the ancients, all drank out of the same cup; was passed from hand to hand, and each drank as much as he chose. The Chaldeans gave to the neighboring nations the cup of idolatry and of deceitful alliance: and in return they received from the Lord the cup of his fury. So Grotius.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Thou art filled with shame for glory - Oppressors think to make themselves great by bringing others down, to fill themselves with riches, by spoiling others. They loved shame Hosea 4:8, because they loved that, which brought shame; they were filled with shame, in that they sated themselves with shamefulness, which was their shame within, before, in the just judgment of God, shame came on them from without Philemon 3:19. “Their glory was in their shame.”…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-20Verses 15-20 A severe woe is pronounced against drunkenness; it is very fearful against all who are guilty of drunkenness at any time, and in any place, from the stately palace to the paltry ale-house. To give one drink who is in want, who is thirsty and poor, or a weary traveller, or ready to perish, is charity; but to give a neighbour drink, that he may expose himself, may disclose secret concerns, or be drawn into a bad bargain, or for any such…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15-17In the fourth taunt song, the Babylonians face condemnation for their shameful acts against people, animals, and the environment. They are like a man who pretends to be friendly but, after getting his neighbors drunk, takes everything from them. However, the Babylonians will face disgrace after drinking from the cup of the Lord’s judgment (see Jeremiah 25:15–17; compare John 18:11).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. art filled--now that thou art fallen. "Thou art filled" indeed (though so insatiable), but it is "with shame." shame for glory--instead of thy former glory (Ho 4:7). drink thou also--The cup of sorrow is now in thy turn to pass to thee (Jr 25:15-17; La 4:21). thy foreskin--expressing in Hebrew feeling the most utter contempt. So of Goliath (1Sa 17:36). It is not merely thy "nakedness," as in Ha 2:15, that shall be "uncovered," but the foreskin, the…Read the comment

Topics related to Habakkuk 2:16

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In the dictionaries

• Blood
• Consult
• Put
• Teach
• Weary
• Wood
• Habakkuk
• Uncircumcised; Uncircumcision
• Wine

Commentaries on Habakkuk 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings