Habakkuk 2:6

Tree of Life Version

Will not all take up a proverb against him or a scornful riddle about him? “Oy to one expanding what isn’t his! How long? Oy to one burdening himself with heavy debts!”

Cross References

Psalm 94:3

How long will the wicked, Adonai, how long will the wicked gloat?

Proverbs 22:16

The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain, and the one who gives to the rich— both end in poverty.

Isaiah 10:13

For he said: “By the strength of my own hand I’ve done it, and my own wisdom, for I am shrewd! I abolished the borders of peoples, and plundered their treasures. As a mighty one I cast down inhabitants.

Isaiah 44:20

He is feeding on ashes. A deceived heart has led him astray, so he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t what is in my right hand a fraud?”

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house and merge field to field, until there is no room, and you will live alone in the midst of the land!

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you spend money for what is not bread? Your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and delight yourself in abundance.

Jeremiah 17:11

As a partridge that broods over young that she did not lay, so is one who gets wealth, unjustly. In the middle of his days it will abandon him, so at his end he will be a fool.

Jeremiah 29:22

So a curse will be taken up by everyone in exile from Judah who are in Babylon, saying: ‘May Adonai make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire’—

Jeremiah 50:13

Because of Adonai’s wrath, it will be uninhabited, all waste. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled, hissing at all her wounds.

Ezekiel 32:21

The strongest warriors will speak of him and his allies from the midst of Sheol. They have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

Micah 2:4

In that day He will lift up a parable for you, and there will be wailing lamentation, saying: “We have been utterly ruined! He changes the portion of my people. How He removes it from me! To the faithless He apportions our fields!”

Habakkuk 1:15

He brings up all with hook in jaw, drags away in his dragnet, or gathers with his fishing-net. Therefore he rejoices with glee.

Habakkuk 2:12

Oy to him who builds a city by bloodshed, and establishes a town with injustice!

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not from Adonai-Tzva’ot that peoples toil to fuel a fire, and nations exhaust themselves for emptiness?

Numbers 23:18

So he uttered his oracle and said: “Rise, Balak! Hear me, son of Zippor!

Numbers 23:7

Then he uttered his oracle and said, “From Aram, Balak brought me, Moab’s king from the mountains of the east: ‘Come! Curse Jacob for me! ‘Come! Denounce Israel!’

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! Tonight your soul is being demanded back from you! And what you have prepared, whose will that be?’

1 Peter 4:7

Now the end of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober-minded for prayer.