Habakkuk 2:10
8 Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you— because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
9 Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.
11 For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork.
12 Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.
- KJV
- Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
- WEB
- You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
- ASV
- Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul.
- DARBY
- Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thine own soul.
- BLB
- You have devised shame for your house, cutting off many peoples, and sinning against your soul.
- ÅB
- Du har lagt opp råd som blir til skam for ditt hus, lagt opp råd om å gjøre ende på mange folk og dermed syndet mot deg selv;
- OTB
- Du har lagt en skammelig plan for ditt hus
Ved å føre mange folk til ruin;
Så du synder mot deg selv. - B1930
- Du har lagt op råd som blir til skam for ditt hus, lagt op råd om å gjøre ende på mange folk og dermed syndet mot dig selv;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Nahum 1:14
The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
Read in context2 Kings 9:26
‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”
Read in contextNumbers 16:38
As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”
Read in context2 Kings 10:7
And when the letter arrived, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.
Read in contextJeremiah 36:31
I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”
Read in contextIsaiah 14:20–22
You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
Read in contextMatthew 27:25
All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
Read in contextJeremiah 26:19
Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!”
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