Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Woe to him who is building a city by blood, And establishing 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 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!
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 a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it. 12 Woe to him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity. 13 Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?
Cross References
Micah 3:10
Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.
Nahum 3:1
Woe to the city of blood, She is all with lies -- burglary -- full, Prey doth not depart.
Genesis 4:11-17
and now, cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand;
Joshua 6:26
And Joshua adjureth them at that time, saying, 'Cursed is the man before Jehovah who raiseth up and hath built this city, even Jericho; in his first-born he doth lay its foundation, and in his youngest he doth set up its doors;'
1 Kings 16:34
In his days hath Hiel the Beth-Elite built Jericho; in Abiram his first-born he laid its foundation, and in Segub his youngest he set up its doors, according to the word of Jehovah that He spake by the hand of Joshua son of Nun.
Jeremiah 22:13-17
Woe to him who is building his house by unrighteousness, And his upper chambers by injustice, On his neighbour he layeth service for nought, And his wage he doth not give to him.
Ezekiel 24:9
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the city of blood, yea, I -- I make great the pile.
Daniel 4:27-31
'Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease.
John 11:47-50
the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, 'What may we do? because this man doth many signs?
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder -- having seen her -- with great wonder;