Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice! New Living Translation “What sorrow awaits you who build cities with money gained through murder and corruption! English Standard Version “Woe to him who builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity! Berean Standard Bible Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity! King James Bible Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! New King James Version “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, Who establishes a city by iniquity! New American Standard Bible “Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed, And founds a town with violence! NASB 1995 “Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed And founds a town with violence! NASB 1977 “Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed And founds a town with violence! Legacy Standard Bible “Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed And founds a town with injustice! Amplified Bible “Woe (judgment is coming) to him who builds a city with bloodshed And establishes a town by violence! Christian Standard Bible Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and founds a town with injustice! Holman Christian Standard Bible Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and founds a town with injustice! American Standard Version Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! Contemporary English Version You're doomed! You built a city on crime and violence. English Revised Version Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! GOD'S WORD® Translation " 'How horrible it will be for the one who builds a city by slaughter and founds a town by crime.' Good News Translation You are doomed! You founded a city on crime and built it up by murder. International Standard Version "Woe to the one who founds a city upon bloodshed, and constructs a city by lawlessness. Majority Standard Bible Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity! NET Bible The one who builds a city by bloodshed is as good as dead--he who starts a town by unjust deeds. New Heart English Bible Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity. Webster's Bible Translation Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! World English Bible Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity! Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionWoe [to] him who is building a city by blood, "" And establishing a city by iniquity. Young's Literal Translation Woe to him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity. Smith's Literal Translation Wo! to him building a city with bloods, and preparing a city by iniquity. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleWoe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and prepareth a city by iniquity. Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to him who builds a town with blood and prepares a city by iniquity. New American Bible Ah! you who build a city by bloodshed, and who establish a town with injustice! New Revised Standard Version “Alas for you who build a town by bloodshed, and found a city on iniquity!” Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleWoe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity! Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Woe to him who builds the city in blood and he fashions the city with evil! OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, And establisheth a city by iniquity! Brenton Septuagint Translation Woe to him that builds a city with blood, and establishes a city by unrighteousness. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Woe to the Chaldeans…11For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork. 12Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity! 13Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?… Cross References Jeremiah 22:13 “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages, Micah 3:10 who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity. Isaiah 5:8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land. Ezekiel 22:27 Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain. James 5:1-6 Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you. / Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes. / Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days. ... Isaiah 10:1-2 Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees, / to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder. Jeremiah 17:11 Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.” Proverbs 1:11-19 If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause, / let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit. / We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder. ... Isaiah 59:6-8 Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands. / Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake. / The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace. Matthew 23:29-36 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous. / And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ / So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. ... Isaiah 33:15 He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil— Ezekiel 13:10-16 Because they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built, / tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will burst forth. / Surely when the wall has fallen, you will not be asked, ‘Where is the whitewash with which you covered it?’ ... Luke 11:47-51 Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them. / So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs. / Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’ ... Amos 3:10 “For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.” Isaiah 30:12-13 Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit, / this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant! Treasury of Scripture Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity! him. Genesis 4:11-17 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; … Joshua 6:26 And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it. 1 Kings 16:34 In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun. blood. Habakkuk 2:8 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. Jump to Previous Basing Blood Bloodshed Buildeth Building Builds City Crime Curse Establishes Establisheth Establishing Evil-Doing Iniquity Stablisheth Unrighteousness Violence Wo WoeJump to Next Basing Blood Bloodshed Buildeth Building Builds City Crime Curse Establishes Establisheth Establishing Evil-Doing Iniquity Stablisheth Unrighteousness Violence Wo WoeHabakkuk 2 1. Unto Habakkuk, waiting for an answer, is shown that he must wait by faith.5. The judgment upon the Chaldean for unsatiableness, 9. for covetousness, 12. for cruelty, 15. for drunkenness, 18. and for idolatry. Woe to him The word "woe" is a strong expression of lamentation and impending judgment. In Hebrew, it is "הוֹי" (hoy), often used by prophets to announce divine displeasure and the certainty of God's judgment. This word sets a somber tone, indicating that the actions being addressed are grievous in the eyes of God. It serves as a warning to those who pursue unjust means, reminding believers of the moral and ethical standards expected by God. who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Woeה֛וֹי (hō·w) Interjection Strong's 1945: Ah! alas! ha! to him who builds בֹּנֶ֥ה (bō·neh) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 1129: To build a city עִ֖יר (‘îr) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 5892: Excitement with bloodshed בְּדָמִ֑ים (bə·ḏā·mîm) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed and establishes וְכוֹנֵ֥ן (wə·ḵō·w·nên) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3559: To be erect a town קִרְיָ֖ה (qir·yāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 7151: A town, city by iniquity! בְּעַוְלָֽה׃ (bə·‘aw·lāh) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 5766: Injustice, unrighteousness Links Habakkuk 2:12 NIVHabakkuk 2:12 NLT Habakkuk 2:12 ESV Habakkuk 2:12 NASB Habakkuk 2:12 KJV Habakkuk 2:12 BibleApps.com Habakkuk 2:12 Biblia Paralela Habakkuk 2:12 Chinese Bible Habakkuk 2:12 French Bible Habakkuk 2:12 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Habakkuk 2:12 Woe to him who builds a town (Hab Hb) |