Habakkuk 2:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² “Alas for you who build a town by bloodshed and found a city on iniquity!”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Woe to him who builds a town with blood and establishes a city by iniquity!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!

Common English Bible

¹² Pity the one building a city with bloodshed and founding a village with injustice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Woe to him who builds a town with blood and prepares a city by iniquity.

Habakkuk 2:12 Cross References

Micah 3:10

who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wrong!

Nahum 3:1

Woe, city of bloodshed, utterly deceitful, full of plunder— no end to the prey!

Revelation 17:6

And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly amazed.

Joshua 6:26

Joshua then pronounced this oath, saying, “Cursed before the Lord be anyone who tries to build this city, Jericho! At the cost of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest he shall set up its gates!”

Ezekiel 24:9

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile great.

1 Kings 16:34

In his days Hiel of Bethel built 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 that he spoke by Joshua son of Nun.

2 Corinthians 1:21

But it is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us,

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not everyone taunt such people and, with mocking riddles, say about them, “Alas for you who heap up what is not your own!” How long will you load yourselves with goods taken in pledge?