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# General Information:
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Yahweh continues to answer Habakkuk and to speak of the Chaldeans as if they were one man. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# the one who forces his neighbors to drink ... you make them drunk
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The way that the Chaldeans cruelly treated other nations is spoken of as if they were a man who forces his neighbors to become drunk so that he can humiliate them. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# the one who forces his neighbors to drink
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It is implied that he makes his neighbor drink wine. Alternate translation: "the one who forces his neighbors to drink wine" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# in order to look at their nakedness
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"so you can look at them when they are naked." This refers to the practice of publicly humiliating people by stripping them naked in front of others. Alternate translation: "so that you can humiliate them publicly by stripping them naked" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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