Habakkuk 2:10

Judgment

⁸ Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

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

Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

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

¹² Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city 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
And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
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2 Kings 9:26
Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.
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Numbers 16:38
The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
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2 Kings 10:7
And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
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Jeremiah 36:31
And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
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Isaiah 14:20–22
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
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Matthew 27:25
Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
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Jeremiah 26:19
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
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