Habakkuk 2:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Because you plundered many nations, the remaining peoples shall plunder you; Because of the shedding of human blood, and violence done to the land, to the city and to all who live in it.

Cross References

Psalm 137:8

Desolate Daughter Babylon, you shall be destroyed, blessed the one who pays you back what you have done us!

Proverbs 22:23

For the Lord will defend their cause, and will plunder those who plunder them.

Isaiah 33:1

Ah! You destroyer never destroyed, betrayer never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; when you have stopped betraying, you will be betrayed.

Isaiah 33:4

Spoil is gathered up as caterpillars gather, an onrush like the rush of locusts.

Isaiah 47:6

Angry at my people, I profaned my heritage And gave them into your power; but you showed them no mercy; Upon the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.

Jeremiah 27:7

All nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time comes for him and his land; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

Jeremiah 30:16

Yet all who devour you shall be devoured, all your enemies shall go into exile. All who plunder you shall become plunder, all who pillage you I will hand over to be pillaged.

Jeremiah 50:14

Take your posts encircling Babylon, you who bend the bow; Shoot at it, do not spare your arrows,

Jeremiah 50:28

Listen! the fugitives, the refugees from the land of Babylon: They announce in Zion the retribution of the Lord, our God.

Jeremiah 50:37

A sword upon their motley throng, and they become women! A sword upon their treasures, and they are plundered;

Jeremiah 51:13

You who dwell by mighty waters, rich in treasure, Your end has come, the time at which you shall be cut off!

Jeremiah 51:24

Thus I will repay Babylon, all the inhabitants of Chaldea, For all the evil they committed against Zion, before your very eyes—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Bel in Babylon, and make him vomit up what he swallowed; nations shall no longer stream to him. Even the wall of Babylon falls!

Jeremiah 51:48

Then heaven and earth and everything in them shall shout over Babylon with joy, when the destroyers come against her from the north—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:8

Babylon suddenly falls and is broken: wail over her! Bring balm for her wounds, in case she can be healed.

Ezekiel 28:16

Your commerce was full of lawlessness, and you sinned. Therefore I banished you from the mountain of God; the cherub drove you out from among the fiery stones.

Ezekiel 39:10

They will not need to bring in wood from the fields or cut down trees in the forests, for they will make fires with the weapons, plundering those who plundered them, pillaging those who pillaged them—oracle of the Lord God.

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do what is right— oracle of the Lord— Storing up in their strongholds violence and destruction.

Obadiah 1:15

Near is the day of the Lord against all the nations! As you have done, so will it be done to you, your conduct will come back upon your own head;

Habakkuk 2:10

You have devised shame for your household, cutting off many peoples, forfeiting your own life;

Habakkuk 2:17

For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover you, and the destruction of the animals shall terrify you; Because of the shedding of human blood, and violence done to the land, to the city and to all who live in it.

Zechariah 1:15

I am consumed with anger toward the complacent nations; When I was only a little angry, they compounded the disaster.

Zechariah 14:12

And this will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples that have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

Revelation 6:10

They cried out in a loud voice, “How long will it be, holy and true master, before you sit in judgment and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?”