Habakkuk 2:15
Good News Translation
You are doomed! In your fury you humiliated and disgraced your neighbors; you made them stagger as though they were drunk.

New Revised Standard Version
“Alas for you who make your neighbors drink, pouring out your wrath until they are drunk, in order to gaze on their nakedness!”

Contemporary English Version
You're doomed! You get your friends drunk, just to see them naked.

New American Bible
Ah! you who give your neighbors the cup of your wrath to drink, and make them drunk, until their nakedness is seen!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend, and presenteth his gall, and maketh him drunk, that he may behold his nakedness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend, and presenteth his gall, and maketh him drunk, that he may behold his nakedness.

unto.

Genesis 19:32-35 Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. . . .

2 Samuel 11:13 And David called him to eat and to drink before him, and he made him drunk: and he went out in the evening, and slept on his couch with the servants of his lord, and went not down into his house.

2 Samuel 13:26-28 And Absalom said: If thou wilt not come, at least let my brother Ammon, I beseech thee, come with us. And the king said to him: It is not necessary that he should go with thee. . . .

Jeremiah 25:15 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take the cup of wine of this fury at my hand: and thou shalt make all the nations to drink thereof, into which I shall send thee.

Jeremiah 51:7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, that made all the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine, and therefore they have staggered.

Revelation 17:2,6 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication. And they who inhabit the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her whoredom. . . .

Revelation 18:3 Because 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 have been made rich by the power of her delicacies.

that puttest.

Hosea 7:5 The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners.

that thou.

Genesis 9:22 Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father's nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.

Exodus 32:25 And when Moses saw that the people were naked, (for Aaron had stripped them by occasion of the shame of the filth, and had set them naked among their enemies)

Context
Woe to the Chaldeans
14For the earth shall be filled, that men may know the glory of the Lord, as waters covering the sea. 15Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend, and presenteth his gall, and maketh him drunk, that he may behold his nakedness.16Thou art filled with shame instead of glory: drink thou also, and fall fast asleep: the cup of the right hand of the Lord shall compass thee, and shameful vomiting shall be on thy glory.…
Cross References
Genesis 9:22
Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father's nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.

Isaiah 5:22
Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.

Isaiah 28:7
But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment.

Habakkuk 2:14
For the earth shall be filled, that men may know the glory of the Lord, as waters covering the sea.

Habakkuk 2:16
Thou art filled with shame instead of glory: drink thou also, and fall fast asleep: the cup of the right hand of the Lord shall compass thee, and shameful vomiting shall be on thy glory.

Habakkuk 2:14
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