Habakkuk 2:12

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Habakkuk 2:12

Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

Him

Blood

Habakkuk 2:8

Bible References

Him

And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;

Then Joshua gave the people orders with an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed before the Lord who puts his hand to the building up of this town: with the loss of his first son will he put the first stone of it in place, and with the loss of his youngest son he will put up its doors.

In his days Hiel made Jericho; he put its base in position at the price of Abiram, his oldest son, and he put its doors in place at the price of his youngest son Segub; even as the Lord had said by Joshua, the son of Nun.

A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

For this cause the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood! and I will make great the burning mass.

For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.

They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.

A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.

Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs.

And I saw the woman overcome as with the wine of the blood of the saints, and the blood of those put to death because of Jesus. And when I saw her, I was overcome with a great wonder.

Blood

Because you have taken their goods from great nations, all the rest of the peoples will take your goods from you; because of men's blood and violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.