Habakkuk 2:9

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Summary

Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

That coveteth an evil covetousness

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General references

Deuteronomy 5:21

Bible References

That coveteth an evil covetousness

Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the

valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the Lord

destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.

But his wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

The graven images of their gods you are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight, then I coveted them and took them; and behold, they are concealed in the earth inside my tent with the silver underneath it.”

Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden because it is close beside my house, and I will give you a better vineyard than it in its place; if you like, I will give you the price of it in money.”

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean, by not receiving from his hands what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and take something from him.”

“For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor;
He has seized a house which he has not built.

“Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness
And his upper rooms without justice,
Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay
And does not give him his wages,

Then I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll.

For he was counted among us and received his share in this ministry.”

Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

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For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire,
And the greedy man curses and spurns the Lord.

Their

inner thought is that their houses are forever

And their dwelling places to all generations;
They have called their lands after their own names.

“Behold, the man who would not make God his refuge,
But trusted in the abundance of his riches
And was strong in his evil desire.”

A rich man’s wealth is his strong city,
And like a high wall in his own imagination.

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
And with Sheol we have made a pact.

The overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by,

For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception.”

“Yet you said, ‘I will be a queen forever.’
These things you did not consider
Nor remember the outcome of them.

“As for the terror of you,
The arrogance of your heart has deceived you,
O you who live in the clefts of the rock,
Who occupy the height of the hill.
Though you make your nest as high as an eagle’s,
I will bring you down from there,” declares the Lord.

“Though you build high like the eagle,
Though you set your nest among the stars,
From there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

General references

‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field or his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’