Habakkuk 2:10
Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thine own soul.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
In Context
11For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Cross References
1 Kings 2:23And king Solomon swore by Jehovah saying, God do so to me, and more also, Adonijah has spoken this word against his own life!
2 Kings 10:7And it came to pass when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slaughtered seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jizreel.
Proverbs 8:36but he that sinneth against me doeth violence to his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Isaiah 33:11Ye shall conceive dry grass, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath shall devour you [as] fire.
Jeremiah 26:19Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? Did he not fear Jehovah, and supplicate Jehovah, and Jehovah repented him of the evil that he had pronounced against them? And we should be doing a great evil against our souls.
Nahum 1:14And Jehovah hath given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy god will I cut off the graven image, and the molten image: I will prepare thy grave; for thou art vile.
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 →