Habakkuk 2:10

Habakkuk 2:10

8 ^aBecause you have plundered many nations,
All the remnant of the people shall plunder you,
Because of men’s¹ blood
And the violence of the land and the city,
And of all who dwell in it.

9 “Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house,
That he may ^aset his nest on high,
That he may be delivered from the¹ power of disaster!

10 You give shameful counsel to your house,
Cutting off many peoples,
And sin against your soul.

11 For the stone will cry out from the wall,
And the beam from the timbers will answer it.

12 “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed,
Who establishes a city by iniquity!

13 Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts
That the peoples labor¹ to feed the fire,
And nations weary themselves in vain?

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Thou hast consulted shame . . . by cutting off many—MAURER, more literally, "Thou hast consulted shame . . . to destroy many," that is, in consulting (determining) to cut off many, thou hast consulted shame to thy house.

sinned against thy soul—that is, against thyself; thou art the guilty cause of thine own ruin (Proverbs 8:36; Proverbs 20:2). They who wrong their neighbors, do much greater wrong to their own souls.

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