Habakkuk 2:9-11

Woe upon rapacity, Habakkuk 2:9-11.

In this stanza the Chaldeans are represented as a covetous man who builds his house with blood and violence, and seeks to store there all kinds of treasures, that he may be “delivered from the power of the evil,” and be safe as a bird in his nest on high. But he cannot escape judgment; the very stones and beams of the house cry to heaven for vengeance.