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

8Since you looted many nations, all the survivors will plunder you— because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land, the city and all its inhabitants. 9Oy to one surely getting unjust gain for his house— to set his nest on high, to escape the reach of calamity! You schemed shame for your house, by cutting off many peoples, so going wrong yourself. 11For a stone will cry out from a wall, and wooden beams will answer. 12Oy to him who builds a city by bloodshed, and establishes a town with injustice!

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‘As surely as I have seen the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday—it is a declaration of Adonai—I will repay you on this property—it is a declaration of Adonai.’ So now pick him up and throw him onto the property, just as in the word of Adonai.”
• 2 Kings 10:7When it came to pass that the letter reached them, they took the king’s 70 sons and slaughtered them, put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.
• Isaiah 14:20You will not join with them in burial, because you ruined your land, you slaughtered your own people. The offspring of evildoers will never be named.
• Jeremiah 22:30Thus says Adonai: “Write this man childless, a man who will not prosper in his days. For no man of his seed will prosper, sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah.”
• Jeremiah 36:31I will also punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the people of Judah all the calamity that I have pronounced against them—but they did not listen.”
• Nahum 1:14Adonai has issued a command against you: no more will your name be spread. From the house of your gods I will cut off the idol and metal image. I will prepare your grave— for you have become worthless.
• Matthew 27:25All the people answered and said, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
• Numbers 16:38As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be taken and hammered into sheets as a covering for the altar. For they were presented before Adonai, so they are holy. They are to be a sign to Bnei-Yisrael.”
• 1 Kings 2:23Then King Solomon swore by Adonai saying: “May God do so to me and even more, if Adonijah does not pay with his own life for this request!
• Proverbs 1:18But they lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush their own lives.
• Proverbs 8:36But whoever fails to find me harms his life— all who hate me love death.”
• Isaiah 33:11You conceive chaff, 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