Habakkuk 2:9

Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!

Cross References (20)

  • Jeremiah 49:16 (5)

    The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers o

  • Jeremiah 22:13–19 (4)

    “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serv

  • Genesis 19:26–38 (2)

    But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

  • Psalms 49:11 (2)

    Their graves are their eternal homes—their dwellings for endless generations—even though their lands were their namesake

  • Genesis 13:10–13 (2)

    And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of

  • Zechariah 5:1–4 (2)

    Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.

  • Isaiah 28:15 (2)

    For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scou

  • Deuteronomy 7:25–26 (2)

    You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, o

  • Jude 1:11 (2)

    Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed for profit into the error of Balaam; they have perish

  • 1 Kings 21:19–24 (2)

    Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is

  • Joshua 7:21–26 (2)

    When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fif

  • Isaiah 47:7–9 (2)

    You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.

  • Psalms 10:3–6 (2)

    For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.

  • Acts 1:17–25 (2)

    He was one of our number and shared in this ministry.”

  • 1 Kings 21:2–4 (2)

    So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give

  • Job 20:19–28 (2)

    For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.

  • 2 Kings 5:20–27 (2)

    Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, by not accepting w

  • Obadiah 1:4 (2)

    Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the

  • Psalms 52:7 (2)

    “Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by

  • Proverbs 18:11–12 (2)

    A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.