Habakkuk 2:12

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Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town with injustice!

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  • Mic 3:10 : 10 You build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
  • Nah 3:1 : 1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, packed with plunder, never without prey.
  • John 11:47-50 : 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council and said, 'What are we going to do since this man is performing so many signs?' 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation. 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, 'You know nothing at all!' 50 'You do not realize that it is better for you that one man should die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.'
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I was utterly amazed.
  • Gen 4:11-17 : 11 'Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.' 12 'When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.' 13 Cain said to the LORD, 'My punishment is more than I can bear.' 14 'Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.' 15 But the LORD said to him, 'Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.' Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. 17 Cain was intimate with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named the city after his son Enoch.
  • Josh 6:26 : 26 At that time, Joshua pronounced this oath: 'Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up to rebuild this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn, he will lay its foundation; and at the cost of his youngest, he will set up its gates.'
  • 1 Kgs 16:34 : 34 During his reign, Hiel of Bethel rebuilt Jericho. At the cost of his firstborn son Abiram, he laid its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest son Segub, he set up its gates, in accordance with the word of the Lord spoken through Joshua son of Nun.
  • Jer 22:13-17 : 13 Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice, making his neighbor work for nothing and not paying him for his labor. 14 He says, 'I will build for myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' cutting out large windows for it, paneling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion. 15 Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Your father ate and drank, but he practiced justice and righteousness, and it went well with him. 16 He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and it was well with him. Is this not what it means to know me? declares the LORD. 17 But your eyes and heart are set only on your dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and violence.
  • Ezek 24:9 : 9 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I myself will make the fire great.
  • Dan 4:27-31 : 27 the king said, "Is not this the great Babylon which I have built as a royal residence by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?" 28 Even as the words were on the king's lips, a voice came from heaven: ‘O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is declared: The kingdom has departed from you!' 29 You will be driven away from people, and your dwelling will be with the wild animals. You will eat grass like cattle, and seven times will pass over you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to whomever He pleases. 30 Immediately, what was spoken about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from people, ate grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird. 31 At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me. I praised the Most High, honored, and glorified Him who lives forever: His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.

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  • Mic 3:10
    82%

    10You build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.

  • Jer 22:13-14
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    80%

    13Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice, making his neighbor work for nothing and not paying him for his labor.

    14He says, 'I will build for myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' cutting out large windows for it, paneling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion.

  • Hab 2:8-11
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    8Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of peoples will plunder you—because of human bloodshed and violence against the land, the cities, and everyone who lives in them.

    9Woe to the one who gains unjust wealth for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of calamity!

    10You have planned disgrace for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your own life.

    11For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the wooden beam will answer it.

  • Nah 3:1
    76%

    1Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, packed with plunder, never without prey.

  • Ps 55:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10Confuse, O Lord, and divide their speech, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

    11Day and night they surround it on its walls, and trouble and wickedness are within it.

  • Mic 2:1-2
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    1Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it.

    2They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from them, though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; though you have planted delightful vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

  • Isa 25:2
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    2For you have turned the city into a heap of ruins, the fortified city into rubble; the palace of foreigners will never be rebuilt.

  • Ezek 24:8-9
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    8To stir up wrath and bring vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so it would not be covered.

    9Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I myself will make the fire great.

  • Hab 2:13
    74%

    13Is it not from the LORD of Hosts that peoples labor for fire and nations grow weary for nothing?

  • Hos 6:8
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    8Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.

  • Isa 5:8
    73%

    8Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field until there is no room, and you live alone in the midst of the land.

  • Isa 1:21
    73%

    21How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness once dwelt in her, but now murderers.

  • Zeph 3:1
    73%

    1Woe to the rebellious and defiled city, the oppressive one!

  • Ezek 24:6
    73%

    6Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot whose corrosion is in it and whose rust will not come off! Take its pieces out one by one; no lot will be cast for them.

  • Mic 3:12
    72%

    12Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.

  • Isa 3:11
    72%

    11Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; they will be repaid for their deeds.

  • Mal 1:4
    72%

    4Though Edom may say, 'We have been destroyed, but we will rebuild the ruins,' this is what the LORD of Hosts says: They may rebuild, but I will tear it down. They will be called 'The Wicked Land,' and 'The people the LORD is angry with forever.'

  • Isa 14:21
    72%

    21Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons because of the iniquity of their fathers. Let them not rise to possess the land or fill the face of the earth with cities.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12Her rich men are full of violence; her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

  • Zeph 1:13
    72%

    13Their wealth will become plunder, and their houses a desolation. They will build houses but not live in them, and they will plant vineyards but not drink their wine.

  • Ezek 11:2-3
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    2He said to me, 'Son of man, these are the men who plan evil and give wicked advice in this city.'

    3They say, 'It is not time to build houses; this city is the pot, and we are the meat.'

  • Jer 6:6
    71%

    6For this is what the Lord of Hosts says: Cut down trees and build a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; it is filled with oppression.

  • Ezek 7:23
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    23Prepare chains, for the land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But your eyes and heart are set only on your dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and violence.

  • Ezek 11:6
    71%

    6You have multiplied your slain in this city and filled its streets with the dead.

  • Isa 5:18
    71%

    18Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of falsehood and sin as if with cart ropes!

  • Prov 11:11
    71%

    11By the blessing of the upright, a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked, it is torn down.

  • Ezek 22:3
    71%

    3Then say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You city that sheds blood in her midst to bring her time closer, and makes idols to defile herself,

  • Ezek 26:12
    71%

    12'They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. They will throw your stones, timber, and rubble into the sea.'

  • Isa 10:1
    71%

    1Woe to those who enact unjust decrees and to those who write oppressive laws.

  • Hos 8:14
    71%

    14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many cities. But I will send fire on their cities, and it will devour their strongholds.

  • Job 24:12
    71%

    12From the city, the dying groan, and the life of the wounded cries out, but God does not regard their folly.

  • Ezek 22:13
    71%

    13See, I will strike my hands together in anger at the dishonest gain you have made and the bloodshed that has been done in your midst.

  • Amos 6:1
    71%

    1Woe to those who are complacent in Zion and trust in Mount Samaria, notable men among the foremost of nations, to whom the house of Israel comes.

  • Isa 24:12
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    12Only desolation is left in the city; the gate is battered into ruins.

  • Jer 22:8
    71%

    8Many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?'

  • Isa 31:2
    71%

    2Yet He is wise and brings disaster; He does not take back His words. He will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who practice wickedness.

  • Isa 22:1
    70%

    1This is an oracle concerning the Valley of Vision: What is wrong with you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops?