Habakkuk 2:12
¶Woe to him that qbuildeth a town with 11blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
¶Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
q:
Ezekiel 24:9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
Jeremiah 22:13 ¶Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
Nahum 3:1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
Micah 3:10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11:
Heb. bloods.
Whosoever he be that lays foundations in blood, is here threatened, and none so great as to keep Off the woe, deserved and menaced.
Heb. city.
in the guilt and with the cruelty of murdering the innocents it is the worst cement which is tempered with blood of murdered men, women, and children.
goeth about or thinketh to establish the foundations of a city.
Babylon in particular.
by force and fraud, by riches extorted from the just possessor.
Whosoever he be that lays foundations in blood, is here threatened, and none so great as to keep Off the woe, deserved and menaced.
Heb. city.
in the guilt and with the cruelty of murdering the innocents it is the worst cement which is tempered with blood of murdered men, women, and children.
goeth about or thinketh to establish the foundations of a city.
Babylon in particular.
by force and fraud, by riches extorted from the just possessor.