Habakkuk 2:12
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Basing Blood Bloodshed Buildeth Building Builds City Crime Curse Establishes Establisheth Establishing Evil-Doing Iniquity Stablisheth Unrighteousness Violence Wo Woe
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Basing Blood Bloodshed Buildeth Building Builds City Crime Curse Establishes Establisheth Establishing Evil-Doing Iniquity Stablisheth Unrighteousness Violence Wo Woe
Parallel Verses
English Standard Version
“Woe to him who builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity!

New American Standard Bible
"Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed And founds a town with violence!

King James Bible
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and founds a town with injustice!

International Standard Version
"Woe to the one who founds a city upon bloodshed, and constructs a city by lawlessness.

NET Bible
The one who builds a city by bloodshed is as good as dead--he who starts a town by unjust deeds.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
" 'How horrible it will be for the one who builds a city by slaughter and founds a town by crime.'

King James 2000 Bible
Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

American King James Version
Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

American Standard Version
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and prepareth a city by iniquity.

Darby Bible Translation
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by unrighteousness!

English Revised Version
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

Webster's Bible Translation
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!

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

Young's Literal Translation
Woe to him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity.
Lexicon
Woe
howy  (hoh'ee)
oh! -- ah, alas, ho, O, woe.
to him that buildeth
banah  (baw-naw')
to build (literally and figuratively) -- (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), surely.
a town
`iyr  (eer)
or (in the plural) par {awr}; or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post) -- Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
with blood
dam  (dawm)
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
and stablisheth
kuwn  (koon)
to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications
a city
qiryah  (kir-yaw')
a city -- city.
by iniquity
`evel  (eh'-vel)
(moral) evil -- iniquity, perverseness, unjust(-ly), unrighteousness(-ly); wicked(-ness).
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