Habakkuk 2:9

Modern English Version

“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the power of calamity!”

Cross References

Psalm 49:11

Their graves are their perpetual homes, their dwelling places to all generations, though they call their lands by their own names.

Psalm 52:7

“Behold, the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and sought refuge in his wickedness.”

Isaiah 28:15

because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we are in agreement. The overflowing scourge shall not come to us when it passes through, for we have made lies our refuge and under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more space where they may live alone in the midst of the land!

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge sits on eggs which it has not laid, so is he who gets riches, but not justly; it will forsake him in the midst of his days, and in the end he will be a fool.

Jeremiah 22:23

O inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, the pain as of a woman in labor!

Jeremiah 49:16

As for the terror of you, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:13

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

Jeremiah 51:53

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from Me will destroyers come to her, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her officials in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to obtain dishonest gain.

Obadiah 1:4

Though you ascend high like the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says the Lord.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily after the error of Balaam for a reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.