You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Habakkuk 2:10 in context
Habakkuk 2:7–13
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Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
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Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
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Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
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You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
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For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
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Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
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Behold, isn’t it from the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
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