Habakkuk 2:13

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Habakkuk 2:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork.

12 Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!

13 Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

15 Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

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Genesis 11:6

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Genesis 11:8

So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

Genesis 11:9

That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

2 Samuel 15:31

Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

Job 5:13

He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

Job 5:14

They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

Psalms 39:6

Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

Psalms 127:1

Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.

Psalms 127:2

In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat— for He gives sleep to His beloved.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.

Isaiah 41:5

The islands see and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward.

Isaiah 41:6

Each one helps the other and says to his brother, “Be strong!”

Isaiah 41:7

The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the welding, “It is good.” He nails it down so it will not be toppled.

Isaiah 41:8

“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—

Isaiah 50:11

Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who array yourselves with firebrands, walk in the light of your fire and of the firebrands you have lit! This is what you will receive from My hand: You will lie down in a place of torment.

Isaiah 55:2

Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

Jeremiah 51:58

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”

Jeremiah 51:64

Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.

Malachi 1:4

Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.