Habakkuk 2:10
You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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 will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
Cross References
1 Kings 2:23Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
2 Kings 10:7When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.
Proverbs 8:36But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
Isaiah 33:11You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
Jeremiah 26:19Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear the LORD, and entreat the favour of the LORD, and the LORD relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”
Nahum 1:14The LORD has commanded concerning you: “No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, I will cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are 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 →