Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Woe unto him, that buildeth the town with blood, and maintaineth the city with unrighteousness.
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 King James verseion
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
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 so that the very stones of the wall shall cry out of it, and the timber that lieth betwixt the joints of the building shall answer. 12 Woe unto him, that buildeth the town with blood, and maintaineth the city with unrighteousness. 13 Shall not the LORD of Hosts bring this to pass, that the laborers of the people shall be burnt with a great fire, and that the thing whereupon the people have wearied themselves, shall be lost?
Cross References
Micah 3:10
Ye that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with doing wrong.
Nahum 3:1
Woe to that bloodthirsty city, which is all full of lies and robbery, and will not leave off from ravishing.
Genesis 4:11-17
And now cursed be thou as pertaining to the earth, which opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood of thine hand.
Joshua 6:26
And Joshua cursed at that time, saying, "Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: so that he lay the foundation with the death of his eldest son, and with the death of his youngest set up the gates."
1 Kings 16:34
In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. And it cost him Abiram his eldest son when he laid the foundation, and his youngest son when he set up the gates, agreeing unto the word of the LORD which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
Jeremiah 22:13-17
Woe worth him, that buildeth his house with unrighteousness, and his parlors with the good that he hath gotten by violence: which never recompenceth his neighbour's labour, nor payeth him his hire.
Ezekiel 24:9
Wherefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: O woe be unto that bloodthirsty city, for whom I will prepare a heap of wood.
Daniel 4:27-31
Wherefore, O king, be content with my counsel, that thou mayest lose thy sins with righteousness, and thine offenses with mercy to poor people: for such things shall prolong thy peace."
John 11:47-50
Then gathered the high priests and the Pharisees a council and said, "What do we? This man doeth many miracles.
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the wife drunken with the blood of saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with great marvel.