Habakuk 2:12

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Celakalah orang yang mendirikan kota di atas darah dan meletakkan dasar benteng di atas ketidakadilan.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Celakalah orang yang mendirikan kota di atas darah dan meletakkan dasar benteng di atas ketidakadilan.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Wai bagi orang yang membangunkan negeri di atas darah dan yang mengalaskan pagar tembok di atas lalim!

Contextual Overview

⁵ Yea in deede the proude man [is as] he that transgresseth by wine, therfore shall he not endure, because he hath enlarged his desire as the hell, & is as death, and can not be satisfied, but gathereth vnto him all nations, and heapeth vnto him all people. ⁶ Shall not all these take vp a parable against him? and a taunting prouerbe against him, and say: Wo he that increaseth that which is not his? how long? and he that ladeth him selfe with thicke clay? ⁷ Shall they not rise vp sodenly that shall byte thee? and awake that shall stirre thee, & thou shalt be their pray? ⁸ Because thou hast spoyled many nations, all the remnaunt of the people shall spoyle thee, because of mens blood, and for the wrong [done] in the lande, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therin. ⁹ Wo he that coueteth an euyll couetousnesse to his house, that he may set his nest on hie, to escape from the power of euyll. ¹⁰ Thou hast consulted shame to thyne owne house, by destroying many people, & hast sinned against thyne owne soule. ¹¹ For the stone shall crye out of the wal, and the beame out of the timber shall aunswere it. ¹² Wo vnto him that buyldeth a towne with blood, and erecteth a citie by iniquitie. ¹³ Behold, is it not of the Lord of hoastes that the people shall labour in the very fire? the people shall euen weery them selues for very vanitie. ¹⁴ For the earth shalbe filled with the knowledge of the glorie of the Lorde, as the waters couer the sea.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

him: Genesis 4:11-17, Joshua 6:26, 1 Kings 16:34, Jeremiah 22:13-17, Ezekiel 24:9, Daniel 4:27-31, Micah 3:10, Nahum 3:1, John 11:47-50, Revelation 17:6

blood: Heb. bloods, Habakkuk 2:8

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 21:19 - Hast thou killed 2 Chronicles 21:13 - hast slain Isaiah 10:1 - Woe James 1:13 - no man

Cross-References

Exodus 28:20
In the fourth a Turcas, an Onyx, and a Iaspis: and they shalbe set in golde in their inclosers.

Exodus 39:13
In the fourth rowe, a Turcas, an Onyx, and a Iaspis: and they were closed in ouches of golde in their inclosers.

Numbers 11:7
The Manna was as coriander seede, and to see to lyke Bedellion.

Job 28:16
No wedges of gold of Ophir, no precious Onix stones, no Saphires may be valued with her.

Ezekiel 28:13
Thou hast ben in the pleasaunt garden of God, thou art deckt with all maner of precious stones, with ruby, topas, diamond, thurkis, onyx, iasper, saphir, emeralde, carbuncle, and golde: the workemanship of thy timbrels and of thy pipes [that be] in thee, was prepared in the day that thou wast created.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!] This is what the stone and beam should say, if others were silent. The town and city are the church of Rome, mystical Babylon, the great city, called spiritually Egypt and Sodom; the builder of this is the pope of Rome, the bishops of it in succession, who built it with blood: the pope of Rome received his title as head of the church from Phocas, that murdered the emperor Mauritius; the foundation of the church of Rome is the blood of the saints, shed in persecutions and wars; hence she is said to be drunk with the blood of them, and to have the blood of prophets and saints found in her, Revelation 17:5 and it is established by unjust exactions of tribute from all countries subject to it, and by indulgences, processions, and various methods taken to extort money from the people, to support its pageantry, pomp, and grandeur; but there is a "woe" denounced against such that are concerned herein, and which will take place in due time, nor can it be awarded, as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! - Nebuchadnezzar “encircled the inner city with three walls and the outer city also with three, all of burnt brick. And having fortified the city with wondrous works, and adorned the gates like temples, he built another palace near the palace of his fathers, surpassing it in height and its great magnificence.” He seemed to strengthen the city, and to establish it by outward defenses. But it was built through cruelty to conquered nations, and especially God’s people, and by oppression, against His holy Will. So there was an inward rottenness and decay in what seemed strong and majestic, and which imposed on the outward eye; it would not stand, but fell. Babylon, which had stood since the flood, being enlarged contrary to the eternal laws of God, fell in the reign of his son. Such is all empire and greatness, raised on the neglect of God’s laws, by unlawful conquests, and by the toil and sweat and hard service of the poor. Its aggrandizement and seeming strength is its fall. Daniel’s exhortation to Nebuchadnezzar Daniel 4:27, “Redeem thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy on the poor,” implies that oppressiveness had been one of his chief sins.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Habakkuk 2:12. Wo to him that buildeth a town with blood — At the expense of much slaughter. This is the answer of the beam to the stone. And these things will refer to the vast fortunes gained, and the buildings erected, by means of the slave-trade; where, to a considerate and humane mind, the walls appear as if composed of the bones of negroes, and cemented by their blood! But the towns or houses established by this iniquity soon come to ruin; and the fortunes made have, in most cases, become as chaff and dust before the whirlwind of God's indignation. But where are the dealers in the souls and bodies of men? Ask him who has them in his keeping. He can tell.