Habakkuk 2:9

New Century Version

“How terrible it will be for the nation that becomes rich by doing wrong, thinking they will live in a safe place and escape harm.

Cross References

Psalm 49:11

Their graves will always be their homes. They will live there from now on, even though they named places after themselves.

Psalm 52:7

“Look what happened to the man who did not depend on God but depended on his money. He grew strong by his evil plans.”

Isaiah 28:15

You say, “We have made an agreement with death; we have a contract with death. When terrible punishment passes by, it won’t hurt us. Our lies will keep us safe, and our tricks will hide us.”

Isaiah 5:8

How terrible it will be for you who add more houses to your houses and more fields to your fields until there is no room left for other people. Then you are left alone in the land.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like a bird hatching an egg it did not lay, so are the people who get rich by cheating. When their lives are half finished, they will lose their riches. At the end of their lives, it will be clear they were fools.

Jeremiah 22:23

King, you live in your palace, cozy in your rooms of cedar. But when your punishment comes, how you will groan like a woman giving birth to a baby!

Jeremiah 49:16

Edom, you frightened other nations, but your pride has fooled you. You live in the hollow places of the cliff and control the high places of the hills. Even if you build your home as high as an eagle’s nest, I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:13

People of Babylon, you live near much water and are rich with many treasures, but your end as a nation has come. It is time to stop you from robbing other nations.

Jeremiah 51:53

Even if Babylon grows until she touches the sky, and even if she makes her highest cities strong, I will send people to destroy her,” says the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:27

Like wolves tearing a dead animal, Jerusalem’s leaders have killed people for profit.

Obadiah 1:4

Even if you fly high like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.

Jude 1:11

It will be terrible for them. They have followed the way of Cain, and for money they have given themselves to doing the wrong that Balaam did. They have fought against God as Korah did, and like Korah, they surely will be destroyed.