Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
and founds a town with injustice!
New American Standard Bible
And founds a town with
King James Version
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
International Standard Version
"Woe to the one who founds a city upon bloodshed, and constructs a city by lawlessness.
A Conservative Version
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
American Standard Version
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!
Amplified
“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who builds a city with bloodshed
And establishes a town by violence!
Bible in Basic English
A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!
Darby Translation
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by unrighteousness!
Julia Smith Translation
Wo! to him building a city with bloods, and preparing a city by iniquity.
King James 2000
Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
Lexham Expanded Bible
Woe to [him who] builds a city by bloodguilt, and [who] founds a city by wickedness!
Modern King James verseion
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Woe unto him, that buildeth the town with blood, and maintaineth the city with unrighteousness.
NET Bible
The one who builds a city by bloodshed is as good as dead -- he who starts a town by unjust deeds.
New Heart English Bible
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity.
The Emphasized Bible
Alas! for him who buildeth a city with deeds of blood, - and establisheth a town with perversity.
Webster
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!
World English Bible
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
Youngs Literal Translation
Woe to him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity.
Themes
Ambition » Connected with » Cruelty
Blood » Illustrative » (building with,) of oppression and cruelty
Blood » Figurative » Of oppression and cruelty
Cities » Often founded and enlarged by blood and rapine
Glory » Whose glory becomes shame
Iniquity » Those that build a city with iniquity
Profit » Those that profit from violence
Topics
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Banah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 2:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Doom On The Unrighteous
11
and the rafters will answer them
from the woodwork.
and founds a town with injustice!
that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire
and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?
Cross References
Micah 3:10
and Jerusalem with injustice.
Nahum 3:1
totally deceitful,
full of plunder,
never without prey.
Genesis 4:11-17
So now you are cursed, alienated, from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.
Joshua 6:26
At that time Joshua imposed this curse:
the rebuilding of this city, Jericho,
is cursed before the Lord.
He will lay its foundation
at the cost of his firstborn;
he will set up its gates
at the cost of his youngest.
1 Kings 16:34
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 set up its gates, according to the word of the Lord He had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.
Jeremiah 22:13-17
through unrighteousness,
his upper rooms through injustice,
who makes his fellow man serve without pay
and will not give him his wages,
Ezekiel 24:9
Therefore, this is what the Lord God says:
I Myself will make the pile of kindling large.
Daniel 4:27-31
Therefore, may my advice seem good to you my king. Separate yourself from your sins by doing what is right,
John 11:47-50
So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin
Revelation 17:6
Then I saw that the woman was drunk on the blood of the saints and on the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.