Habakkuk 2:17
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

Young's Literal Translation
For violence [to] Lebanon doth cover thee, And spoil of beasts doth affright them, Because of man’s blood, and of violence [to] the land, [To] the city, and [to] all dwelling in it.

King James Bible
For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, [which] made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

Hebrew
For
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

your violence
חֲמַ֤ס (ḥă·mas)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2555: Violence, wrong, by meton, unjust gain

against Lebanon
לְבָנוֹן֙ (lə·ḇā·nō·wn)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3844: Lebanon -- a wooded mountain range on the northern border of Israel

will overwhelm you,
יְכַסֶּ֔ךָּ (yə·ḵas·se·kā)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover

and the destruction
וְשֹׁ֥ד (wə·šōḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7701: Violence, havoc, devastation, ruin

of animals
בְּהֵמ֖וֹת (bə·hê·mō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 929: A dumb beast, any large quadruped, animal

will terrify you,
יְחִיתַ֑ן (yə·ḥî·ṯan)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine plural
Strong's 2865: To prostrate, to break down, either, by violence, by confusion and fear

because of the blood
מִדְּמֵ֤י (mid·də·mê)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed

of men
אָדָם֙ (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

and violence
וַחֲמַס־ (wa·ḥă·mas-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2555: Violence, wrong, by meton, unjust gain

against lands,
אֶ֔רֶץ (’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

cities,
קִרְיָ֖ה (qir·yāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7151: A town, city

and everyone
וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

in them.
יֹ֥שְׁבֵי (yō·šə·ḇê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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