Habakkuk 2:6

Modern King James Version

Shall not all these lift up a parable against him, and a mocking riddle to him, and say, Woe to him who increases what is not his! Until when, then, shall he load the pledges on himself?

Cross References

Psalm 94:3

How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked exult?

Proverbs 22:16

He who crushes the poor to multiply for himself, and he who gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.

Isaiah 10:13

For he says, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am wise. And I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the people like a strong man.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, laying field to field, until the end of space, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Jeremiah 17:11

The quail sits on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.

Jeremiah 29:22

And a curse shall be taken up from them by all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, May Jehovah make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,

Jeremiah 50:13

Because of the wrath of Jehovah it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly a waste. Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be amazed and hiss at all her plagues.

Ezekiel 32:21

The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with those who help him. They have gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

Micah 2:4

In that day one shall take up a parable against you and mourn a mourning of mournings, saying, We shall be completely laid waste. He has exchanged the share of my people. How He has removed it from me! To the apostate He has divided our fields.

Habakkuk 1:15

He takes up all of them with the hook; he drags him with his net and gathers him with his seine; therefore he rejoices and exults.

Habakkuk 2:12

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

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not for Jehovah of Hosts that the people labor only for fire; yea, the nations weary themselves only for vanity?

Numbers 23:18

And he took up his parable and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear. Listen to me, son of Zippor.

Numbers 23:7

And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul shall be required of you, then whose shall be those things which you have prepared?

1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things has drawn near. Therefore be of sound mind, and be sensible to prayers.