Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him who builds a town with blood and prepares a city by iniquity.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 4:11Now, therefore, you will be cursed upon the land, which opened its mouth and received the blood of your brother at your hand.
1 Kings 16:34In his days, Hiel from Bethel built up Jericho. With Abiram, his firstborn, he founded it, and with Segub, his youngest son, he set up its gates, in accord with the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the hand of Joshua, the son of Nun.
Ezekiel 24:9Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Woe to the city of blood, out of which I will make a great funeral pyre.
Micah 3:10You build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
John 11:47And so, the high priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and they were saying: “What can we do? For this man accomplishes many signs.
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 2:6-15
Judgment Predicted; Judgment of the King of Babylon. ( b. c. 600.) 5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! 7 Shall… Read the whole commentary →