Habakkuk 2:9

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Woe to him that gathereth evil covetousness to his house, that his nest be on high, and guesseth him for to be delivered of the hand of evil.

Cross References

Psalm 49:11

and the sepulchres of them be the houses of them without end. The tabernacles of them be in generation and in generation; they called their names in their lands.

Psalm 52:7

and they shall say, Lo! the man that setted [or put] not God his helper. But he hoped in the multitude of his riches; and had mastery in his vanity.

Isaiah 28:15

For ye said, We have smitten a bond of peace with death, and we have made covenant with hell; a scourge flowing, when it shall pass, shall not come [up] on us, for we have set a leasing our hope, and we be covered with a leasing.

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to you that join house to house, and couple field to field, till to the end of [a] place. Whether ye alone shall dwell in the midst of the land?

Jeremiah 17:11

A partridge nourished those things which she breeded not; he made riches, and not in doom; in the midst of his days he shall forsake them, and in his last time he shall be unwise.

Jeremiah 22:23

and then thou that sittest in the Lebanon, and makest nest in cedars, shalt be shamed, and ashamed of all thy malice. How wailedest thou, when sorrows were come to thee, as the sorrow of a woman travailing of child?

Jeremiah 49:16

Thy boast, and the pride of thine heart, hath deceived thee, that dwellest in the caves of stone, and enforcest or endeavourest to take the highness of a little hill; when thou as an eagle hast raised thy nest, from thence I shall draw thee down, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:13

A! thou Babylon, that dwellest on many waters, rich in thy treasures, thine end cometh, the foot-measure of thy cutting down.

Jeremiah 51:53

If Babylon ascendeth [or go up] into heaven, and maketh steadfast his strength on high, destroyers thereof shall come of me, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:27

The princes thereof in the midst thereof were as wolves ravishing prey, to shed out blood, and to lose men, and in following lucres greedily.

Obadiah 1:4

Though thou shalt be raised as an eagle, and thou shalt put thy nest among stars, from thence I shall draw thee down, saith the Lord.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them that went the way of Cain, and that be shed out by error of Balaam for meed, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.