Woe to the Chaldeans
Habakkuk 2:10
In 11 translations
- BSB
- You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.Literally sinning against your soul
- KJV
- Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
- WEB
- You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
- ASV
- Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul.
- LSV
- You have counseled a shameful thing to your house, || To cut off many peoples, and your soul [is] sinful.
- YLT
- Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful [is] thy soul.
- DBY
- Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thine own soul.
- DRC
- Thou hast devised confusion to thy house, thou hast cut off many people, and thy soul hath sinned.
- GNV
- Thou hast consulted shame to thine owne house, by destroying many people, and hast sinned against thine owne soule.
- JPS
- Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast forfeited thy life.
- LXXE
- Thou hast devised shame to thy house, thou hast utterly destroyed many nations, and thy soul has sinned.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- יָעַ֥צְתָּ בֹּ֖שֶׁת לְבֵיתֶ֑ךָ קְצוֹת־עַמִּ֥ים רַבִּ֖ים וְחוֹטֵ֥א נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἐβουλεύσω αἰσχύνην τῷ οἴκῳ σου, συνεπέρανας πολλοὺς λαοὺς, καὶ ἐξήμαρτεν ἡ ψυχή σου.
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Cross-references most cited first
- 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…
- 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…
- Habakkuk 2:16You will be filled with shame instead of glory. You too must drink and expose your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD’s right hand will come around to you, and utter disgrace will cover your glory.
- 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.
- 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…
- Proverbs 1:18But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
- Matthew 27:25All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
- 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.
- Jeremiah 26:19Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to…
- Isaiah 14:20–22You 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. Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities…
- 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.”
- Isaiah 33:11You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
- 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.”
- Proverbs 8:36But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
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