Habakkuk: The just shall live by faith (9) Five woes against Babylon (2)

In the last article we looked at Habakkuk's third woe against Babylon (2:12-14) and saw that though Babylon was just coming to power and would soon dominate the nations, its might and conquests were all vanity: "Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?" All the labor of their conquests, their building projects, their political system were put forth in the middle of the fires that would destroy...