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Habakkuk 2:13

Are not these things before the Lord of hosts? For the people will labor amid a great fire, and the nations will labor in emptiness, and they will fail
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King James Version

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?

English Standard Version

Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?

New International Version

Has not the LORD Almighty determined that the people's labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?