American King James Version
"Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity! "
— Habakkuk 2:12, American King James Version
“Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!”
“Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! ”
“Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!”
“Woe to the one who builds a city by bloodshed– he who starts a town by unjust deeds.”
“Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and prepareth a city by iniquity.”
“A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!”
“Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!”
Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul.
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. ¶
Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. ¶
Woe to him that gives his neighbor drink, that put your bottle to him, and make him drunken also, that you may look on their nakedness!