Habakkuk 2:10
Thou hast devised confusion to thy house, thou hast cut off many people, and thy soul hath sinned.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
Cross References
1 Kings 2:23Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying: So and so may God do to me, and add more, if Adonias hath not spoken this word against his own life.
2 Kings 10:7And when the letters came to them, they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezrahel.
Proverbs 8:36But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.
Isaiah 33:11You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath as fire shall devour you.
Jeremiah 26:19Did Ezechias king of Juda, and all Juda, condemn him to death? did they not fear the Lord, and beseech the face of the Lord: and the Lord repented of the evil that they had spoken against them? therefore we are doing a great evil against our souls.
Nahum 1:14And the Lord will give a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name shall be sown: I will destroy the graven and molten thing out of the house of thy God, I will make it thy grave, for thou art disgraced.
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 →