Habakkuk 2:12

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A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!

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  • Mic 3:10 : 10 They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.
  • Nah 3:1 : 1 A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.
  • John 11:47-50 : 47 Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs. 48 If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation. 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You have no knowledge of anything; 50 You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 And I saw the woman overcome as with the wine of the blood of the saints, and the blood of those put to death because of Jesus. And when I saw her, I was overcome with a great wonder.
  • Gen 4:11-17 : 11 And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand; 12 No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth. 13 And Cain said, My punishment is greater than my strength. 14 You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death. 15 And the Lord said, Truly, if Cain is put to death, seven lives will be taken for his. And the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one might put him to death. 16 And Cain went away from before the face of the Lord, and made his living-place in the land of Nod on the east of Eden. 17 And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son.
  • Josh 6:26 : 26 Then Joshua gave the people orders with an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed before the Lord who puts his hand to the building up of this town: with the loss of his first son will he put the first stone of it in place, and with the loss of his youngest son he will put up its doors.
  • 1 Kgs 16:34 : 34 In his days Hiel made Jericho; he put its base in position at the price of Abiram, his oldest son, and he put its doors in place at the price of his youngest son Segub; even as the Lord had said by Joshua, the son of Nun.
  • Jer 22:13-17 : 13 A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work; 14 Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red. 15 Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him? 16 He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord. 17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
  • Ezek 24:9 : 9 For this cause the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood! and I will make great the burning mass.
  • Dan 4:27-31 : 27 For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer. 28 All this came to King Nebuchadnezzar. 29 At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of his great house in Babylon. 30 The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour? 31 While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice came down from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is said: The kingdom has gone from you:

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  • Mic 3:10
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    10 They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.

  • Jer 22:13-14
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    80%

    13 A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

    14 Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.

  • Hab 2:8-11
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    8 Because you have taken their goods from great nations, all the rest of the peoples will take your goods from you; because of men's blood and violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.

    9 A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!

    10 You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.

    11 For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.

  • Nah 3:1
    76%

    1 A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.

  • Ps 55:10-11
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    75%

    10 By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

    11 Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

  • Mic 2:1-2
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    74%

    1 A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

    2 They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

  • Isa 25:2
    74%

    2 For you have made a town a waste place: a strong town a mass of broken walls; the tower of the men of pride has come to an end; it will never be put up again.

  • Ezek 24:8-9
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    8 In order that it might make wrath come up to give punishment, she has put her blood on the open rock, so that it may not be covered.

    9 For this cause the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood! and I will make great the burning mass.

  • Hab 2:13
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    13 See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

  • Hos 6:8
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    8 Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.

  • Isa 5:8
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    8 Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!

  • Isa 1:21
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    21 The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

  • Zeph 3:1
    73%

    1 Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!

  • Ezek 24:6
    73%

    6 For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it.

  • Mic 3:12
    72%

    12 For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

  • Isa 3:11
    72%

    11 Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.

  • Mal 1:4
    72%

    4 Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever.

  • Isa 14:21
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    21 Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13 And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

  • Ezek 11:2-3
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    71%

    2 Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who are designing evil, who are teaching evil ways in this town:

    3 Who say, This is not the time for building houses: this town is the cooking-pot and we are the flesh.

  • Jer 6:6
    71%

    6 For this is what the Lord of armies has said: Let trees be cut down and an earthwork be placed against Jerusalem: sorrow on the false town! inside her there is nothing but cruel ways.

  • Ezek 7:23
    71%

    23 Make the chain: for the land is full of crimes of blood, and the town is full of violent acts.

  • Jer 22:17
    71%

    17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

  • Ezek 11:6
    71%

    6 You have made great the number of your dead in this town, you have made its streets full of dead men.

  • Isa 5:18
    71%

    18 Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!

  • Prov 11:11
    71%

    11 By the blessing of the upright man the town is made great, but it is overturned by the mouth of the evil-doer.

  • Ezek 22:3
    71%

    3 And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!

  • Ezek 26:12
    71%

    12 They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

  • Isa 10:1
    71%

    1 Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:

  • Hos 8:14
    71%

    14 For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.

  • Job 24:12
    71%

    12 From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

  • Ezek 22:13
    71%

    13 See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.

  • Amos 6:1
    71%

    1 Sorrow to those who are resting in comfort in Zion, and to those who have no fear of danger in the mountain of Samaria, the noted men of the chief of the nations, to whom the people of Israel come!

  • Isa 24:12
    71%

    12 In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.

  • Jer 22:8
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    8 And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town?

  • Isa 31:2
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    2 Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.

  • Isa 22:1
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    1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?