Habakkuk 2:9

Modern King James Version

Woe to him who robs evil booty for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil!

Cross References

Psalm 49:11

Their inward thought is that their houses shall go on forever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Psalm 52:7

Behold, the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, he was strong in his wickedness.

Isaiah 28:15

Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and we have made a vision with hell; when the overwhelming rod shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood,

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!

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 22:23

O dweller in Lebanon, nested in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come to you, the pain as one giving birth?

Jeremiah 49:16

Your dreadfulness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 51:13

O you who live on many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, and the measure of your unjust gain.

Jeremiah 51:53

Though Babylon should mount up to the heavens, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet plunderers shall come to her from Me, says Jehovah.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her rulers in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, to get unjust gain.

Obadiah 1:4

Though you rise high like the eagle, and though you set your nest between the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they went the way of Cain, and gave themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.