What Does Habakkuk 2:19 Mean?

“Woe”

oh!

“unto him that saith”

to say (used with great latitude)

“to the wood”

a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)

“Awake”

to awake (literally or figuratively)

“Arise”

to wake (literally or figuratively)

“stone”

a stone

“to the dumb”

still; adverbially, silently

he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo

“it shall teach”

properly, to flow as water (i.e., to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e., to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by

lo!

he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo

“Behold it is laid”

to manipulate, i.e., seize; chiefly to capture, wield, specifically, to overlay; figuratively, to use unwarrantably

“over with gold”

gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e., yellow), as oil, a clear sky

“and silver”

silver (from its pale color); by implication, money

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“and there is no breath”

wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the

a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle

“at all in the midst”

properly, the nearest part, i.e., the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)