Habakkuk 2:12 Cross References - Thomson

¹² Woe to him who buildeth a city with blood and furbisheth up a city with iniquities!

¹¹ Now therefore thou art cursed from this land, which hath opened its mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand. ¹² When thou tillest the ground, it will not henceforth yield thee its strength. Thou shalt be in a state of anguish and terror in this land." ¹³ And Cain said to the Lord God, "Is my fault too great to be forgiven? ¹⁴ If thou castest me out this day from the face of this land and I be hid from thy presence and be in a state of anguish and terror in the land, it will come to pass that whoever findeth me will kill me." ¹⁵ And the Lord said to him, "Not so. Whosoever killeth Cain shall suffer seven fold vengeance." And the Lord God gave a sign to Cain, that whoever found him would not kill him. ¹⁶ So Cain went out from the presence of God and dwelt in the land of Naid over against Eden. ¹⁷ And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Enoch. And he employed himself in building a city and he called the city Enoch after his son's name.

²⁶ And on that day Joshua uttered an imprecation before the Lord, saying, Cursed be the man who shall rebuild this city. With his first born let him lay the foundation, and with his youngest son erect its gates.

³⁴ Now in his days Achiel the Baithelite, rebuilt Jericho. With Abeiron, his first born, he laid the foundation thereof, and with Segub his youngest son, he set up its gates, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by Joshua son of Nave.

¹³ With regard to him who is building himself a house, but not with righteousness, and lofty stories, but not with justice: he useth the service of his neighbour for nothing, and will not pay him his wages. ¹⁴ Thou hast built thyself a well proportioned house, lofty chambers well fitted with windows, and cieled with cedar and painted with vermillion. ¹⁵ Is it thy desire to be made king? because thou art instigated by thy father Achaz, are there not feasts? are there not entertainments? better were it for thee to execute judgment and justice. ¹⁶ They did not take cognisance, they did not administer justice to the lowly, nor decide righteously the cause of the needy, is not this owing to thy not knowing me? saith the Lord. ¹⁷ Behold thine eyes are not good, neither is thy heart; but they are bent upon thine inordinate desires and on the shedding of innocent blood, and on injustice, and on murder; that thou mayst perpetrate these things.

⁹ Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will enlarge the pile,

²⁷ For this cause, king, let my counsel be acceptable to thee; and make atonement for thy sins by acts of kindness, and for thy transgressions by tender mercies for the distressed. Perhaps God may forgive thine offences. ²⁸ All these things came upon Nabuchodonosar the king. ²⁹ At the end of twelve months, as the king was walking in the temple of his kingdom at Babylon, ³⁰ he spake, saying, Is not this the great Babylon which I have built for the house of a kingdom, by the might of my power, for the display of my glory? ³¹ While the word was yet in the king's mouth, there came a voice from heaven, To thee Nabuchodonosar it is said, the regal power is gone from thee

¹⁰ who are building up Sion with blood and Jerusalem with injustice.

¹ bloody city, wholly perfidious and full of lies! shall not thy prey be handled?

⁴⁷ Whereupon the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled the Sanhedrim, and said, What are we doing? Because this man doth many miracles, ⁴⁸ if we let him go on thus, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both this place and this nation of ours. ⁴⁹ And one of them, namely, Caiaphas, being chief priest that year, said to them, Are you totally ignorant, ⁵⁰ and do you not consider that it is better for us that one man die for the people than that the whole nation should perish.

⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and when I saw her I expressed my astonishment with great amaze.