Habakkuk 2:16 (LSB)

Passage

You will be filled with disgrace rather than glory. Now you yourself drink and expose your own nakedness. The cup in Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, And utter disgrace will come upon your glory.

Nearby Context

Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, As the waters cover the sea.

Habakkuk 2:15 “Woe to you who make your neighbors drink, Who mix in your venom even to make them drunk So as to look on their nakedness!

Habakkuk 2:16 You will be filled with disgrace rather than glory. Now you yourself drink and expose your own nakedness. The cup in Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, And utter disgrace will come upon your glory.

Habakkuk 2:17 For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you, And the devastation of its beasts by which you terrified them, Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land, To the town and all its inhabitants.

Habakkuk 2:18 “What profit is the graven image when its maker has engraved it, Or a molten image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own making When he fashions speechless idols.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "grace", "filled", "disgrace", "rather", "than", "glory", "yourself", and "drink". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "grace" and "filled", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 15's "Woe to you who make your neighbors..." into verse 17's "For the violence done to Lebanon will...", so "grace" and "filled" belong inside that flow. In Habakkuk context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "grace" and "filled" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.