Habakkuk 2:17

Easy To Read Version

You hurt many people in Lebanon. You stole many animals there. So you will be afraid because of the people that died and because of the bad things you did to that country. You will be afraid because of the things you did to those cities and to the people that lived in those cities.”

Cross References

Psalm 137:8

Babylon, you will be destroyed!\par Bless the man who gives you\par the punishment you should get.\par Bless the man who hurts you\par like you hurt us.\par

Psalm 55:23

Give your worries to the Lord,\par and he will care for you.\par The Lord will never let good people\par be defeated.\par

Proverbs 28:17

If a person is guilty of killing another person, then that person will never have peace. Don’t support that person.

Jeremiah 50:14

“Prepare for war against Babylon.\par All you soldiers with bows,\par shoot your arrows at Babylon.\par Don’t save any of your arrows.\par Babylon has sinned against the Lord.\par

Jeremiah 50:28

People are running out of Babylon.\par They are escaping from that country\par and coming to Zion {\cf2\super [412]} .\par They are telling everyone the good news\par about what the Lord is doing.\par The Lord is giving Babylon\par the punishment it deserves.\par The Lord is destroying Babylon,\par because it destroyed his temple!\par

Jeremiah 51:24

But I will pay Babylon back.\par I will pay all the Babylonian people back.\par I will pay them back for all the bad things\par that they did to Zion. {\cf2\super [421]} \par I will pay them back so that you can see it, Judah.”\par The Lord said those things.\par

Ezekiel 28:16

Your business brought you \{many riches\}.\par But they also put cruelty inside you.\par And you sinned.\par So I treated you like you were some\par unclean thing—\par I threw you off the mountain of God.\par You were one of the special Cherub angels—\par \{Your wings\} spread over \{my throne\}.\par But I forced you to leave the jewels\par that sparkled like fire.\par

Ezekiel 31:16

I made the tree fall—and the nations shook with fear at the sound of the falling tree. I sent the tree down to the place of death, to join the other people that had gone down into that deep hole. In the past, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, drank that water. Those trees were comforted in the world below.

Joel 3:19

Egypt will be empty.\par Edom will be an empty wilderness.\par Why? Because they were cruel\par to the people of Judah.\par They killed innocent people {\cf2\super [36]} \par in their country.\par

Habakkuk 1:17

Will he continue to take riches with his net?\par Will he continue destroying people\par

Habakkuk 2:8

You have stolen things from many nations. So those people will take much from you. You have killed many people. You have destroyed lands and cities. You have killed all the people there.

Zechariah 11:1

Lebanon, open your gates so the fire\par will come and burn your cedar trees. {\cf2\super [27]} \par