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translationWords
- en:tw:blood
- en:tw:fire
- en:tw:glory
- en:tw:iniquity
- en:tw:know
- en:tw:labor
- en:tw:nation
- en:tw:water
- en:tw:woe
- en:tw:yahweh
- en:tw:yahwehofhosts
translationNotes
- Yahweh continues to answer Habakkuk. He refers to the Chaldeans as though they are one person.
- Woe to the one who builds a city with blood, and who establishes a town in iniquity - These two phrases are saying the same thing in different ways. Alternate translation: "A warning to the Chaldeans who built their cities with what they have stolen from the people they have killed" (See: en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_parallelism)
- with blood - by killing people (See: en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_metonymy). Alternate translation: "the one who kills people and steals their goods in order to build a city." (See en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_explicit)
- and who establishes a town in iniquity - "The one who starts a town through evil behavior." The Chaldeans built their cities using goods stolen from the people they killed. (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_explicit)
- Is it not from Yahweh of Hosts that peoples labor for fire and that the nations weary themselves for nothing? - God has caused the destruction of what the people built. It is said in two different ways in order to make the meaning more clear. Alternate translation: "Yahweh is the one who causes what people work hard to build to be destroyed by fire and result in nothing." (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_rquestion and en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_parallelism)