Habakkuk 2:6-20

3. The Lord’s sentence on Babylon 2:6-20

The Lord pronounced taunts or mocking statements on the Babylonians announcing that they would receive judgment for their sins. This taunt song consists of five stanzas of three verses each. Five woes follow. Baker entitled them "the pillager," "the plotter," "the promoter of violence," "the debaucher," and "the pagan idolator." [Note: Baker, pp. 62, 64, 65, and 67.] Each woe is "an interjection of distress pronounced in the face of disaster or in view of coming judgment (cf. Isaiah 3:11; Isaiah 5:11; Isaiah 10:5; et al.)." [Note: Blue, p. 1514.]