Habakkuk 2:15

That puttest thy bottle. Better, “he that joineth thy wrath” (“his wrath,” in the Hebrew text quoted in the Habakkuk Commentary of the Dead Sea scrolls; see p. 1047). The RSV of the first half of this verse reads: “Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink of the cup of his wrath.” Like the man who gives drink to his neighbor that he might take advantage of him, so the Chaldeans gave to their neighbors, and it is only fitting that they in turn should be made to drink of the cup of God’s wrath (see Rev. 14:8, 10). Look. This is a figure illustrating (see Gen. 9:20-23) the abject condition of humiliation to which the conquered nations were reduced under the iniquitous and tyrannical rule of the Babylonians (see Lam. 4:21). Nakedness. Instead of “nakedness” the Hebrew text quoted in the Habakkuk Commentary of the Dead Sea scrolls (see p. 1047) reads “festivals.”