The woe targets the one who heaps up what is not his and loads himself with pledges. It warns that creditors will suddenly arise and the plunderer will become plunder. This is in Habakkuk 2:6–7.
In Habakkuk 2:5–7, the prophet describes an arrogant conqueror whose appetite never stops. He reaches beyond normal limits, pulls whole peoples into his grasp, and builds wealth by taking what is not his. Then the angle shifts: the very nations he collected will become a speaking chorus. These lines belong to the divine reply that follows Habakkuk’s complaint about God using a violent empire to judge Judah.
Habakkuk 2:5–7 portrays an arrogant conqueror whose desire keeps expanding and never reaches “enough.” The passage links his inner posture (haughty, restless) with outward imperial practice (gathering nations, heaping peoples).
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with Habakkuk 2:6-7, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
6Won`t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, `Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?`
7Won`t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?