OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 12

Habakkuk 2:12

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Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

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Habakkuk 2:9–15

9

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!

10

You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

11

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!

13

Behold, isn’t it from the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

14

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.

15

“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

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