Episode 227: Let your foreskin be uncovered

Habakkuk 1-3

Habakkuk's burden

1 ¹ This is the burden that Habakkuk saw:

² I've been crying to you for a long time. But you don't hear or save me.

⁴ The wicked are defeating the righteous.

⁵ God answered Habakkuk, saying,

⁶ I'm sending the Chaldeans (Babylonians) to take your land.

⁸ They have horses that are faster than leopards and fiercer than wolves. Their horsemen can fly like eagles.

¹² Habakkuk said to God,

You've sent them to correct us.

¹³ But why send wicked people to punish us?

Let your foreskin be uncovered

2 ² God said to me,

Write down this vision.

³ It might take a while, but the vision won't lie to you. It'll come soon.

⁵ People transgress by drinking wine.

¹⁵ Woe to those who get their neighbors drunk, just to see them naked!

¹⁶ So go ahead and drink, and let your foreskin be uncovered.

The cup of God's right hand will spew shame on your glory.

¹⁷ You'll be destroyed by the wild beasts of Lebanon.

¹⁹ Woe to the one who says to wood, "Wake up!" Or to the dumb stone, "Get up!"

²⁰ God is in his holy temple. Let everyone else be silent.

God had horns coming out of his hand

3 ¹ Habakkuk's prayer:

² I heard your speech, God, and was afraid.

³ God came from Teman and mount Paran.

⁴ He had horns coming out of his hand.

⁵ Before him went the pestilence, with burning coals at his feet.

⁶ He measured the earth, made nations tremble, scattered mountains, and made the hills bow.

¹⁰ The mountains trembled when they saw you. The ocean spoke in a deep voice and lifted up its hands.

¹¹ The sun and the moon stopped moving.

¹² You marched through the land, trampling the heathen in your anger.

¹³ You wounded the heads of the wicked.

¹⁵ You walked through the sea with your horses.

¹⁶ When I heard about it, my belly trembled, and my bones rotted.

^17-18 Though there are no figs, grapes, olives, meat, or food, I'll rejoice in God.

¹⁹ He'll make my feet like deer's feet, so I can climb up the mountain.