Habakkuk 2:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and founds a town with injustice! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Woe to him who builds a town with blood and establishes a city by iniquity! American Standard Version (1901) Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! Common English Bible Pity the one building a city with bloodshed and founding a village with injustice. Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to him who builds a town with blood and prepares a city by iniquity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and prepareth a city by iniquity. |
During his reign, Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn, he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest, he finished its gates, according to the word of the Lord which he had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.
‘ “Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I myself will make the pile of kindling large.
Woe to the city of blood, totally deceitful, full of plunder, never without prey.
Won’t all of these take up a taunt against him, with mockery and riddles about him? They will say, ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his – how much longer? – and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.’
Now it is God who strengthens us together with you in Christ, and who has anointed us.
At that time Joshua imposed this curse: The man who undertakes the rebuilding of this city, Jericho, is cursed before the Lord. He will lay its foundation at the cost of his firstborn; he will finish its gates at the cost of his youngest.
Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.