Habakkuk 2:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

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  • Mic 3:10 : 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
  • Nah 3:1 : 1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery; the prey does not depart;
  • John 11:47-50 : 47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, What shall we do? for this man does many miracles. 48 If we let him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation. 49 And one of them, named Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, You know nothing at all, 50 Nor do you consider that it is better for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus; and when I saw her, I marveled with great wonder.
  • Gen 4:11-17 : 11 And now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened her mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand; 12 When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer you shall be on the earth. 13 And Cain said to the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from your face shall I be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth; and it shall come to pass, that anyone who finds me shall slay me. 15 And the LORD said to him, Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him. 16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. 17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
  • Josh 6:26 : 26 And Joshua swore an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, who rises up and builds this city Jericho: he shall lay its foundation with his firstborn, and with his youngest son he shall set up its gates.
  • 1 Kgs 16:34 : 34 In his days, Hiel of Bethel rebuilt Jericho. He laid its foundation at the cost of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
  • Jer 22:13-17 : 13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work; 14 Who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. 15 Shall you reign, because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD. 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.
  • Ezek 24:9 : 9 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pyre large.
  • Dan 4:27-31 : 27 Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of your tranquility. 28 All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar. 29 At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 30 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty? 31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken; The kingdom has departed from you.

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  • Mic 3:10
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    10They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

  • Jer 22:13-14
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    13Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;

    14Who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

  • Hab 2:8-11
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    8Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall plunder you; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell therein.

    9Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

    10You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul.

    11For the stone shall cry out from the wall, and the beam from the timber shall answer it.

  • Nah 3:1
    76%

    1Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery; the prey does not depart;

  • Ps 55:10-11
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    10Day and night they go about it upon its walls; mischief and sorrow are in the midst of it.

    11Wickedness is in the midst of it; deceit and guile do not depart from its streets.

  • Mic 2:1-2
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    1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.

    2They covet fields and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

  • Isa 25:2
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    2For You have made a city a heap, a fortified city a ruin; a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be rebuilt.

  • Ezek 24:8-9
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    8That it might cause fury to come up and take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.

    9Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pyre large.

  • Hab 2:13
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    13Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for mere vanity?

  • Hos 6:8
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    8Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, and it is polluted with blood.

  • Isa 5:8
    73%

    8Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no place, that they may dwell alone in the midst of the earth!

  • Isa 1:21
    73%

    21How the faithful city has become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

  • Zeph 3:1
    73%

    1Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

  • Ezek 24:6
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    6Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum has not gone out! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

  • Mic 3:12
    72%

    12Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  • Isa 3:11
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    11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given to him.

  • Mal 1:4
    72%

    4Though Edom says, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus says the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD has indignation forever.

  • Isa 14:21
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    21Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13Therefore their goods shall become plunder, and their houses a desolation: they shall build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine from them.

  • Ezek 11:2-3
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    71%

    2Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief and give wicked counsel in this city:

    3Who say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the cauldron, and we are the meat.

  • Jer 6:6
    71%

    6For thus has the LORD of hosts said, Cut down trees, and build a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited; she is full of oppression in her midst.

  • Ezek 7:23
    71%

    23Make a chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.

  • Jer 22:17
    71%

    17But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.

  • Ezek 11:6
    71%

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

  • Isa 5:18
    71%

    18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as if with a cart rope:

  • Prov 11:11
    71%

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

  • Ezek 22:3
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    3Then say, Thus says the Lord GOD, The city sheds blood in its midst, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself.

  • Ezek 26:12
    71%

    12And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the water.

  • Isa 10:1
    71%

    1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and who write out oppressive laws they have prescribed;

  • Hos 8:14
    71%

    14For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities, but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces there.

  • Job 24:12
    71%

    12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out, yet God does not charge them with folly.

  • Ezek 22:13
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    13Behold, therefore I have struck My hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.

  • Amos 6:1
    71%

    1Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, who are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

  • Isa 24:12
    71%

    12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

  • Jer 22:8
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    8And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has the LORD done thus to this great city?

  • Isa 31:2
    71%

    2Yet He also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back His words: but will rise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who practice iniquity.

  • Isa 22:1
    70%

    1The burden of the valley of vision. What troubles you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops?