Habakkuk 2:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Ah! you who pursue evil gain for your household, setting your nest on high to escape the reach of misfortune!

Cross References

Psalm 49:11

Indeed, he will see that the wise die, and the fool will perish together with the senseless, and they leave their wealth to others.

Psalm 52:7

God too will strike you down forever, he will lay hold of you and pluck you from your tent, uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Isaiah 28:15

You have declared, “We have made a covenant with death, with Sheol we have made a pact; When the raging flood passes through, it will not reach us; For we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have found a hiding place,”—

Isaiah 5:8

Ah! Those who join house to house, who connect field with field, Until no space remains, and you alone dwell in the midst of the land!

Jeremiah 17:11

A partridge that broods but does not hatch are those who acquire wealth unjustly: In midlife it will desert them; in the end they are only fools.

Jeremiah 22:23

You who dwell on Lebanon, who nest in the cedars, How you shall groan when pains come upon you, like the pangs of a woman in childbirth!

Jeremiah 49:16

The terror you spread, the pride of your heart, beguiled you. You denizens of rocks and crevices, occupying towering peaks: Though you build your nest high as the eagle, from there I will bring you down—oracle of the Lord.

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 51:53

Though Babylon scale the heavens, and make her strong heights inaccessible, my destroyers shall reach her—oracle of the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:27

Within her, her officials are like wolves tearing prey, shedding blood and destroying lives to extort profit.

Obadiah 1:4

Though you soar like the eagle, and your nest is set among the stars, From there I will bring you down— oracle of the Lord.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! They followed the way of Cain, abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.