New American Standard Bible 1995
Habakkuk 2:10
10You have devised a 1shameful thing for your house By cutting off many peoples; So you are 2sinning against yourself.
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 looted many nations, All the remainder of the peoples will loot you-- Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land, To the town and all its inhabitants. 9“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house To put his nest on high, To be delivered from the hand of calamity! You have devised a shameful thing for your house By cutting off many peoples; So you are sinning against yourself. 11Surely the stone will cry out from the wall, And the rafter will answer it from the framework. 12“Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed And founds a town with violence!
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יָעַ֥צְתָּ בֹּ֖שֶׁת לְבֵיתֶ֑ךָ קְצוֹת־עַמִּ֥ים רַבִּ֖ים וְחוֹטֵ֥א נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Habakkuk 2:10
- 2 Kings 9:26‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,’ says the Lord, ‘and I will repay you in this property,’ says the Lord. Now then, take and cast him into the property, according to 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 him at Jezreel.
- Isaiah 14:20You will not be united with them in burial, Because you have ruined your country, You have slain your people. May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever.
- Jeremiah 22:30Thus says the Lord, ‘Write this man down childless, A man who will not prosper in his days; For no man of his descendants will prosper 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 iniquity, and I will bring on them and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the men of Judah all the calamity that I have declared to them--but they did not listen.”’”
- Nahum 1:14The Lord has issued a command concerning you: “Your name will no longer be perpetuated. I will cut off idol and image From the house of your gods. I will prepare your grave, For you are contemptible.”
- Matthew 27:25And all the people said, “His blood shall be on us and on our children!”
- Numbers 16:38As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered sheets for a plating of the altar, since they did present them before the Lord and they are holy; and they shall be for a sign to the sons of Israel.”
- 1 Kings 2:23Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “May God do so to me and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
- Proverbs 1:18But they lie in wait for their own blood; They ambush their own lives.
- Proverbs 8:36But he who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death.”
- Isaiah 33:11You have conceived chaff, you will give birth to stubble; My breath will consume you like a fire.
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
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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
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