Habakkuk 2:9

New International Version

“Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, setting his nest on high to escape the clutches of ruin!

Cross References

Psalm 49:11

Their tombs will remain their houses forever, their dwellings for endless generations, though they had named lands after themselves.

Psalm 52:7

“Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!”

Isaiah 28:15

You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death, with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means. When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools.

Jeremiah 22:23

You who live in ‘Lebanon,’ who are nestled in cedar buildings, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, pain like that of a woman in labor!

Jeremiah 49:16

The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks, who occupy the heights of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle’s, from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:13

You who live by many waters and are rich in treasures, your end has come, the time for you to be destroyed.

Jeremiah 51:53

Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, I will send destroyers against her,” declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain.

Obadiah 1:4

Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error; they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.