Habakkuk 2:10

Habakkuk 2:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
• New International Version (NIV)You have plotted the ruin of many peoples, shaming your own house and forfeiting your life.
• English Standard Version (ESV)You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.
• New King James Version (NKJV)You give shameful counsel to your house, Cutting off many peoples, And sin against your soul.

Context of Habakkuk 2:10

8Because you [king of Babylon] have looted many nations, All peoples who are left will loot you— Because of human bloodshed and for the violence done to the land, To the city and all its inhabitants. 9“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who obtains wicked gain for his house [and thinks by so doing] To set his nest on high, That he may be rescued from the hand of evil. You have devised a shameful thing for your house By cutting off and putting an end to many peoples; So you are sinning against your own life and forfeiting it. 11For the stone will cry out from the wall [to accuse you—built in sin!] And the rafter will answer it out of the woodwork. 12“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who builds a city with bloodshed And establishes a town by violence!

Habakkuk 2:10 word by word

יָעַ֥צְתָּ בֹּ֖שֶׁת לְבֵיתֶ֑ךָ קְצוֹת־עַמִּ֥ים רַבִּ֖ים וְחוֹטֵ֥א נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thou hast consultedיָעַץyâ‛ats · to adviseH3289
• shameבֹּ֫שֶׁתbôsheth · shameH1322
• to thy houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: householdH1004
• by cutting offקָצָהqâtsâh · to cut offH7096
• manyרַבrab · manyH7227
• peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• and hast sinnedחָטָאchâţâ' · to sinH2398
• thy soulנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soul: lifeH5315

Cross-references for Habakkuk 2:10

• 2 Kings 9:26‘I certainly saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday,’ says the Lord, ‘and I will repay you on this property,’ says the Lord. Now then, pick him up and throw him into the property [of Naboth], in accordance with the word of the Lord.”
• 2 Kings 10:7When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.
• Isaiah 14:20You will not be united with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land, You have slain your people. May the descendants of evildoers never be named!
• Jeremiah 22:30Thus says the Lord, ‘Write this man [Coniah] down as childless, A man who will not prosper (succeed) in his lifetime; For not one of his descendants will succeed In sitting on the throne of David Or ruling again in Judah.’ ”
• Jeremiah 36:31I will also punish him and his descendants and his servants for their wickedness, and I will bring on them and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the men of Judah all the destruction that I have declared against them—but they would not listen.” ’ ”
• Nahum 1:14The Lord has given a command concerning you [O king of Nineveh]: “Your name will no longer be perpetuated. I will cut off the carved idols and cast images From the temple of your gods; I will prepare your grave, For you are vile and unworthy.”
• Matthew 27:25And all the people answered, “Let [the responsibility for] His blood be on us and on our children!”
• Numbers 16:38As for the censers of these people who have sinned at the cost of their lives, have the censers made into hammered sheets as a plating for the altar [of burnt offering], for they were presented before the Lord and they are sacred. They shall be a [warning] sign to the sons of Israel.”
• 1 Kings 2:23Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “May God do the same to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not requested this [deplorable] thing against his own life.
• Proverbs 1:18But [when these people set a trap for others] they lie in wait for their own blood; They set an ambush for their own lives [and rush to their destruction].
• Proverbs 8:36But he who fails to find me or sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love and court death.”
• Isaiah 33:11You have conceived dried grass, you will give birth to stubble; My breath is a fire that will consume you.

Commentaries on Habakkuk 2:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Hast sinned against thy soul - Thy life is forfeited by thy crimes.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Thou hast consulted shame to thy house, the cutting off many people, and sinning against thy soul - The wicked, whether out of passion or with his whole mind and deliberate choice and will, takes that counsel, which certainly brings shame to himself and his house, according to the law of God, whereby, according to Exodus 20:5, He “visits the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Him,” i. e…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-14Verses 5-14 The prophet reads the doom of all proud and oppressive powers that bear hard upon God's people. The lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, are the entangling snares of men; and we find him that led Israel captive, himself led captive by each of these. No more of what we have is to be reckoned ours, than what we come honestly by. Riches are but clay, thick clay; what are gold and silver but white and yellow earth? Those…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-11In the second taunt song, the Babylonians face condemnation for their dishonest actions. They used deceit to gain resources for building large houses, which cost them their lives.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. Thou hast consulted shame ... by cutting off many--Maurer, more literally, "Thou hast consulted shame ... to destroy many," that is, in consulting (determining) to cut off many, thou hast consulted shame to thy house. sinned against thy soul--that is, against thyself; thou art the guilty cause of thine own ruin (Pr 8:36; 20:2). They who wrong their neighbors, do much greater wrong to their own souls.Read the comment

Topics related to Habakkuk 2:10

• Homicide
• Oppression
• Rulers

In the dictionaries

• Cutting Off
• Blood
• Consult
• Put
• Teach
• Weary
• Wood
• Habakkuk
• Shame

Commentaries on Habakkuk 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings