Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"Woe to the one who founds a city upon bloodshed, and constructs a city by lawlessness.
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!
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
Interlinear
Banah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 2:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Doom On The Unrighteous
11 Indeed, the stone will cry out from the wall and the rafter will respond from the woodwork." 12 "Woe to the one who founds a city upon bloodshed, and constructs a city by lawlessness. 13 Is it not because of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies that people grow tired putting out fires, and nations weary themselves over nothing?
Cross References
Micah 3:10
who are building up Zion by means of bloodshed, and Jerusalem by means of iniquity.
Nahum 3:1
Woe to this city, contaminated with shed blood, all full of lies and robberies it is never without victims!
Genesis 4:11-17
Now you're more cursed than the ground, which has opened to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Joshua 6:26
Then Joshua made everyone take the following oath at that time. He said: "Cursed in the presence of the LORD is the man who restores and rebuilds this city of Jericho! He will lay its foundation at the cost of his firstborn, and at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates."
1 Kings 16:34
It was during Ahab's reign that Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. He laid its foundations just as his firstborn son Abiram was dying, and he erected its gates while his youngest son Segub was dying, thus fulfilling the message that the LORD delivered through Nun's son Joshua.
Jeremiah 22:13-17
"How terrible for him who builds his house without righteousness, and its upper rooms without justice, who makes his neighbor work for nothing, and does not pay him his wage.
Ezekiel 24:9
"Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "How terrible it is for that blood-filled city I'm also going to add to my pile of kindling.
Daniel 4:27-31
Therefore, your majesty, may my advice be acceptable to you: Stop your sinning, do what's right, and put a stop to your wickedness by showing kindness to the oppressed. Perhaps your tranquility will continue."
John 11:47-50
So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.
Revelation 17:6
I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. I was very surprised when I saw her.