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 have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you— because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers. 9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster! You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life. 11For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork. 12Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!

Habakkuk 2:10 word by word

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

• You have plottedיָעַץyâ‛ats · to adviseH3289
• shameבֹּ֫שֶׁתbôsheth · shameH1322
• for your houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: householdH1004
• by cutting offקָצָהqâtsâh · to cut offH7096
• manyרַבrab · manyH7227
• peoplesעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• and forfeitingחָטָאchâţâ' · to sinH2398
• your lifeנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soul: lifeH5315

Cross-references for Habakkuk 2:10

• 2 Kings 9:26‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”
• 2 Kings 10:7And when the letter arrived, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.
• Isaiah 14:20You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
• Jeremiah 22:30This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”
• Jeremiah 36:31I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”
• Nahum 1:14The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
• Matthew 27:25All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
• Numbers 16:38As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”
• 1 Kings 2:23Then King Solomon swore by the LORD: “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if Adonijah has not made this request at the expense of his life.
• Proverbs 1:18But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
• Proverbs 8:36But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
• Isaiah 33:11You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your 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