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The Habakkuk Pesher — Column 11

The Qumran Community · a new plain-English translation from the original language

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the Lie, and afterward knowledge will be revealed to them like the

waters of the sea, in abundance [...] "Woe to him who makes his neighbor drink, pouring in

his venom, indeed making him drunk, so that he may gaze upon their feasts [...]"

Its interpretation concerns the Wicked Priest, who

pursued the Teacher of Righteousness to swallow him up in the heat

of his wrath, at his house of exile [...] and at the time of the feast of rest,

the Day of Atonement, he appeared to them, to swallow them up

and to make them stumble on the day of fasting, their sabbath of rest [...] "You have been sated with

shame more than glory. Drink, you also, and stagger!

The cup of the LORD's right hand will turn around against you, and disgrace

upon your glory [...]"

Its interpretation concerns the priest whose disgrace became greater than his glory,

for he did not circumcise the foreskin of his heart, and he walked in the ways of

drunkenness, in order to add to the thirst [...] and the cup of the wrath of

[God] will swallow him up, to add [upon him] [his] [disgrace] and pain

[...] to [...] to [...] to [...]

[...] [for] [the violence] [done to Lebanon] [will cover you,] [and] [the destruction] [of the beasts]

An original translation made in 2026 by Scriptorium Press, working directly from the original language text (never from another English translation), in one consistent modern voice. Free to read, download, and listen — no accounts, no ads, nothing for sale.

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