Habakkuk 2:17

The Scriptures 2009

“For the violence done to Leḇanon is to overwhelm you – and the ravaging of beasts by which you made them afraid – because of men’s blood and the violence to the land, to the city and of all who dwell in it.

Cross References

Psalm 137:8

O daughter of Baḇel, who are to be destroyed, Blessed is he who repays you your deed, What you did to us!

Psalm 55:23

For You, O Elohim, do bring them down To the pit of destruction; Men of blood and deceit do not reach half their days; But I, I trust in You.

Proverbs 28:17

A man oppressed by blood-guilt flees into a pit; Let no one help him.

Jeremiah 50:14

“Set yourselves in array against Baḇel all around, all you who bend the bow. Shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against יהוה.

Jeremiah 50:28

Listen! They flee and escape from the land of Baḇel, to declare in Tsiyon the vengeance of יהוה our Elohim, the vengeance of His Hĕḵal.

Jeremiah 51:24

“And I shall repay Baḇel and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Tsiyon before your eyes,” declares יהוה.

Ezekiel 28:16

“By the greatness of your trade you became filled with violence within, and you sinned. So I thrust you from the mountain of Elohim, and I destroyed you, O covering keruḇ, from the midst of the stones of fire.

Ezekiel 31:16

I shall make the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I bring it down to She’ol together with those who descend into the pit. And all the trees of Ěḏen, the choice and best of Leḇanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the depths of the earth.

Joel 3:19

“Mitsrayim shall become a ruin, and Eḏom a ruin, a wilderness, because of violence done to the people of Yehuḏah, whose innocent blood they shed in their land.

Habakkuk 1:17

Is he therefore to keep on emptying his net, and killing nations without sparing?

Habakkuk 2:8

“Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall plunder you, because of men’s blood, and doing violence to the land, to the city, and to all who dwell in it.

Zechariah 11:1

Open your doors, O Leḇanon, and let fire devour your cedars.