Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
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!
Holman Bible
and founds a town with injustice!
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 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
Interlinear
Banah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 2:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Doom On The Unrighteous
11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. 12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity! 13 Behold, is it not for Jehovah of Hosts that the people labor only for fire; yea, the nations weary themselves only for vanity?
Cross References
Micah 3:10
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Nahum 3:1
Woe to the bloody city! It is a lie, and full of plunder; the prey is not withdrawn.
Genesis 4:11-17
And now you are cursed more than the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Joshua 6:26
And Joshua charged them at that time, saying, Cursed before Jehovah is the man who rises up and builds this city of Jericho. He shall lay the foundation of it in his first-born, and in his youngest son he shall set up the gates of it.
1 Kings 16:34
In his days Hiel the man of Bethel built Jericho. He laid the foundation of it in Abiram his first-born, and set up the gates of it in his youngest son Segub, according to the Word of Jehovah which He spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
Jeremiah 22:13-17
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him for his work;
Ezekiel 24:9
So the Lord Jehovah says this: Woe to the bloody city! I will even heap on the pile.
Daniel 4:27-31
Therefore, O king, let my advice be pleasing to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, whether there will be duration to your prosperity.
John 11:47-50
Then the chief priests and Pharisees gathered a sanhedrin, and said, What can we do? For this man does many miracles.
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with a great marveling.