_Woe unto him that builds a city in blood,[406] And stablishes a town in iniquity![407] Lo, is it not from Jehovah of hosts, That the nations shall toil for smoke,[408] And the peoples wear themselves out for nought? But earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah,[409] Like the waters that cover the sea._ FOURTH TAUNT-SONG (ii. 15-17). _Woe unto him that gives his neighbour to drink, From the cup of his wrath[410] till he be drunken, That he may gloat on his[411] nakedness! Thou art sated with shame—not with glory; Drink also thou, and stagger.[412] Comes round to thee the cup of Jehovah’s right hand, And foul shame[413] on thy glory. For the violence to Lebānon shall cover thee, The destruction of the beasts shall affray thee.[414] For men’s blood, and earth’s waste, Cities and all their inhabitants.[415]_ FIFTH TAUNT-SONG (ii. 18-20). _What boots an image, when its artist has graven it, A cast-image and lie-oracle, that its moulder has trusted upon it, Making dumb idols? Woe to him that saith to a block, Awake! To a dumb stone, Arise! Can it teach? Lo, it ...[416] with gold and silver; There is no breath at all in the heart of it. But Jehovah is in His Holy Temple: Silence before Him, all the earth!_ FOOTNOTES: [394] See above, pp. 125 f. [395] See above, pp. 125 f. Nowack (1897) agrees that Cornill’s and others’ conclusion that vv. 9-20 are not Habakkuk’s is too sweeping. He takes the first, second and fourth of the taunt-songs as authentic, but assigns the third (vv. 12-14) and the fifth (18-20) to another hand. He deems the refrain, 8_b_ and 17_b_, to be a gloss, and puts 19 before 18. Driver, _Introd._, 6th ed., holds to the authenticity of all the verses. [396] The text reads, _For also wine is treacherous_, under which we might be tempted to suspect some such original as, _As wine is treacherous, so_ (next line) _the proud fellow_, etc. (or, as Davidson suggests, _Like wine is the treacherous dealer_), were it not that the word _wine_ appears neither in the Greek nor in the Syrian version. Wellhausen suggests that היין, _wine_, is a corruption of הוי, with which the verse, like vv. 6_b_, 9, 12, 15, 19, may have originally begun, but according to 6_a_ the taunt-songs, opening with הוי, start first in 6_b_. Bredenkamp proposes וְאֶפֶס כְּאַיִן. [397] The text is ינוה, a verb not elsewhere found in the Old Testament, and conjectured by our translators to mean _keepeth at home_, because the noun allied to it means _homestead_ or _resting-place_. The Syriac gives _is not satisfied_, and Wellhausen proposes to read ירוה with that sense. See Davidson’s note on the verse. [398] A.V. _thick clay_, which is reached by breaking up the word עבטיט, _pledge_ or _debt_, into עב, _thick cloud_, and טיט, _clay_.