Habakkuk 2:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and prepareth a city by iniquity.

Habakkuk 2:12 Cross References

1 Kings 16:34

In his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof with the loss of his youngest son Segub; according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of Joshua the son of Nun.

Ezekiel 24:9

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.

Micah 3:10

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Nahum 3:1

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and that ladeth himself with pledges!

2 Corinthians 1:21

Now he that stablisheth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

Joshua 6:26

And Joshua charged them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: with the loss of his firstborn shall he lay the foundation thereof, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder.