Habakkuk 2:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!”
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“Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!”
King James Version · Public Domain“Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Woe <FI>to<Fi> him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Habakkuk 2:12 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 4:11Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
- Joshua 6:26At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.”
- 1 Kings 16:34In Ahab’s days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.
- Jeremiah 22:13“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
- Ezekiel 24:9Yes, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the kindling high.
- Daniel 4:27Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”
- Micah 3:10who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
- Nahum 3:1Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
- John 11:47Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
- Revelation 17:6I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.
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