Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
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Genesis 4:11-17
Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. . . .

Joshua 6:26
At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: "Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates."

1 Kings 16:34
In Ahab's days, Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to the word the LORD had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.

Jeremiah 22:13-17
"Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and will not give him his wages, . . .

Ezekiel 24:9
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the kindling high.

Daniel 4:27-31
Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity." . . .

Micah 3:10
who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Nahum 3:1
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.

John 11:47-50
Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we to do? This man is performing many signs. . . .

Revelation 17:6
I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and of the witnesses for Jesus. And I was greatly astonished at the sight of her.

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Habakkuk 2:8
Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you for your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land and city and all their dwellers.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
"Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed And founds a town with violence!

King James Bible
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and founds a town with injustice!

International Standard Version
"Woe to the one who founds a city upon bloodshed, and constructs a city by lawlessness.

NET Bible
The one who builds a city by bloodshed is as good as dead--he who starts a town by unjust deeds.
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