Habakkuk 2:8

Modern English Version

Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people will plunder you, because of the bloodshed of men and violence of the land, of the cities and all who live in them.

Cross References

Psalm 137:8

O daughter of Babylon, destined to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who rewards you as you have served us!

Proverbs 22:23

for the Lord will plead their cause, and plunder the soul of those who plunder them.

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to you, O destroyer, though you were not destroyed, and he who is treacherous, though others did not deal treacherously with you! When you cease destroying, you shall be destroyed; and when you finish dealing treacherously, others shall deal treacherously with you.

Isaiah 33:4

your spoil is gathered like the caterpillar gathers; as locusts rush about, men rush about on it.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with My people; I have polluted My inheritance and given them into your hand. You did not show them mercy; on the aged you have laid your yoke very heavily.

Jeremiah 27:7

All nations shall serve him and his son and his son’s son until the time of his own land comes; and then many nations and great kings will make him their servant.

Jeremiah 30:16

Therefore all who devour you will be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity. And those who plunder you will become plunder, and all who prey upon you I will give for prey.

Jeremiah 50:14

Put yourselves in battle array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:28

There is the sound of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of His temple.

Jeremiah 50:37

A sword is against their horses, and against their chariots, and against all the foreigners who are in her midst; and they will become as women. A sword is against her treasures, and they will be robbed.

Jeremiah 51:13

O you who dwell by many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, and the measure of your end.

Jeremiah 51:24

I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth from his mouth what he has swallowed up; and the nations will not flow together any more to him. Indeed, the wall of Babylon will fall.

Jeremiah 51:48

Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is in it, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers will come to her from the north, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:8

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed. Howl for her. Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.

Ezekiel 28:16

By the multitude of your merchandise, you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

Ezekiel 39:10

They shall take no wood out of the field, or cut down any out of the forests, for they shall make fires with the weapons. And they shall despoil those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, says the Lord God.

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do right, says the Lord, storing up violence and destruction in their fortresses.

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations; as you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.

Habakkuk 2:10

You have given shameful counsel to your house by cutting off many peoples, and forfeiting your life.

Habakkuk 2:17

The violence done to Lebanon will cover you, as will the plunder of beasts that terrified them, because of the bloodshed of men and violence of the land, of the cities and all who live in them.

Zechariah 1:15

And I have a great anger for those nations who are at ease, for while I was angry but a little, they helped to increase evil.

Zechariah 14:12

And this will be the pestilence with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who go to battle against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot as they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

Revelation 6:10

They cried out with a loud voice, “How long, O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”