Habakkuk 2:10

Translations

Modern

You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.

Traditional

Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

Literal

You have devised shame for your house, cutting off many peoples, and sinning against your soul.

Latin

Cogitasti confusionem domui tuæ; concidisti populos multos, et peccavit anima tua.

Original

Hebrew

English

You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.

Notes

Habakkuk 2:9–11

In 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.

Habakkuk 2:6–20

Five taunt songs describe God's future judgment on the Babylonians and others who act violently and unjustly (Habakkuk 2:6–8, 9–11, 12–14, 15–17, 18–20). God lets them bring about their own destruction. Those who suffer will repeat these taunts when the wicked face judgment (see Habakkuk 1:14–17). Each taunt includes:

a statement of sorrow,
a judgment, and
the reason for God's judgment.

Habakkuk 2:2–20

God answers Habakkuk's second complaint (Habakkuk 1:12–2:1) but does not explain why he chose the Babylonians. Instead, he assures Habakkuk that he will punish all violence and injustice.

Theme notes and profiles

Human Confusion and God’s Purpose

Events

Prophecies of Habakkukc. 607 BC

Related verses

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 and throw him on the plot of ground.”
Nahum 1:14
The 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 you are contemptible.”
Jeremiah 26:19
Did 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 bring great harm on ourselves!”
Isaiah 33:11
You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
1 Kings 2:23
Then 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.
Isaiah 14:20–22
You 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.
2 Kings 10:7
And 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.
Habakkuk 2:16
You 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.
Proverbs 8:36
But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
Jeremiah 22:30
This 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.”
Matthew 27:25
All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
Proverbs 1:18
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

Glossary

Bloodguilt Book of Habakkuk Riches

Topics

Homicide: Felonious, or Murder Oppression: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Rulers: Wicked

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