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Habakkuk 2:12
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Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshedand founds a town with injustice!
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
Woe to him that buildeth a towne with blood, and stablisheth a citie by iniquitie.
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
"Woe to him who builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity!
"Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed, And founds a town with violence!
"How terrible it will be for the nation that kills people to build a city, that wrongs others to start a town.
"Woe (judgment is coming) to him who builds a city with bloodshed And establishes a town by violence!
Wo vnto him that buildeth a towne with blood, and erecteth a citie by iniquitie.
"Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed And founds a town with violence!
"Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshedAnd founds a town with injustice!
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
"‘Woe to him who builds a city with blood and founds a town on injustice,
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by unrighteousness!
"Look at them! They kill people to build their city and do wicked things to make their walled city strong.
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
You are doomed! You founded a city on crime and built it up by murder.
Woe to him who builds a city by bloodguilt, and who founds a city by wickedness!
Woe to him who builds a town with blood and establishes a city by iniquity!
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!
A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!
Wo vnto him that buyldeth a towne with blood, and erecteth a citie by iniquitie.
Woe to him that builds a city with blood, and establishes a city by unrighteousness.
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
Wo to hym that bildith a citee in bloodis, and makith redi a citee in wickidnesse.
Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!
The one who builds a city by bloodshed is as good as dead— he who starts a town by unjust deeds.
"Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, Who establishes a city by iniquity!
"What sorrow awaits you who build cities with money gained through murder and corruption!
"It is bad for him who builds a city with blood, and builds a town with wrong-doing!
"Alas for you who build a town by bloodshed, and found a city on iniquity!"
Alas! for him who buildeth a city with deeds of blood, - and establisheth a town with perversity.
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and prepareth a city by iniquity.
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and founds a city on iniquity!
Wo [to] him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity.
Wo vnto him, yt buyldeth the towne with bloude, and maynteneth ye cite with vnrightuousnes.
"Who do you think you are— building a town by murder, a city with crime? Don't you know that God -of-the-Angel-Armies makes sure nothing comes of that but ashes, Makes sure the harder you work at that kind of thing, the less you are? Meanwhile the earth fills up with awareness of God 's glory as the waters cover the sea.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
him: Genesis 4:11-17, Joshua 6:26, 1 Kings 16:34, Jeremiah 22:13-17, Ezekiel 24:9, Daniel 4:27-31, Micah 3:10, Nahum 3:1, John 11:47-50, Revelation 17:6
blood: Heb. bloods, Habakkuk 2:8
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 21:19 - Hast thou killed 2 Chronicles 21:13 - hast slain Isaiah 10:1 - Woe James 1:13 - no man
Cross-References
and in the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. Mount the stones in delicate gold settings
and a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper were in the fourth row. They were mounted in a delicate gold setting,
The manna was like small whitish seeds
or precious stones.
You lived in the garden of Eden and wore jewelry made of brightly colored gems and precious stones. They were all set in gold and were ready for you on the day you were born.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!] This is what the stone and beam should say, if others were silent. The town and city are the church of Rome, mystical Babylon, the great city, called spiritually Egypt and Sodom; the builder of this is the pope of Rome, the bishops of it in succession, who built it with blood: the pope of Rome received his title as head of the church from Phocas, that murdered the emperor Mauritius; the foundation of the church of Rome is the blood of the saints, shed in persecutions and wars; hence she is said to be drunk with the blood of them, and to have the blood of prophets and saints found in her, Revelation 17:5 and it is established by unjust exactions of tribute from all countries subject to it, and by indulgences, processions, and various methods taken to extort money from the people, to support its pageantry, pomp, and grandeur; but there is a "woe" denounced against such that are concerned herein, and which will take place in due time, nor can it be awarded, as follows:
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! - Nebuchadnezzar “encircled the inner city with three walls and the outer city also with three, all of burnt brick. And having fortified the city with wondrous works, and adorned the gates like temples, he built another palace near the palace of his fathers, surpassing it in height and its great magnificence.” He seemed to strengthen the city, and to establish it by outward defenses. But it was built through cruelty to conquered nations, and especially God’s people, and by oppression, against His holy Will. So there was an inward rottenness and decay in what seemed strong and majestic, and which imposed on the outward eye; it would not stand, but fell. Babylon, which had stood since the flood, being enlarged contrary to the eternal laws of God, fell in the reign of his son. Such is all empire and greatness, raised on the neglect of God’s laws, by unlawful conquests, and by the toil and sweat and hard service of the poor. Its aggrandizement and seeming strength is its fall. Daniel’s exhortation to Nebuchadnezzar Daniel 4:27, “Redeem thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy on the poor,” implies that oppressiveness had been one of his chief sins.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Habakkuk 2:12. Wo to him that buildeth a town with blood — At the expense of much slaughter. This is the answer of the beam to the stone. And these things will refer to the vast fortunes gained, and the buildings erected, by means of the slave-trade; where, to a considerate and humane mind, the walls appear as if composed of the bones of negroes, and cemented by their blood! But the towns or houses established by this iniquity soon come to ruin; and the fortunes made have, in most cases, become as chaff and dust before the whirlwind of God's indignation. But where are the dealers in the souls and bodies of men? Ask him who has them in his keeping. He can tell.
