Habakkuk 2:10
Good News Translation
But your schemes have brought shame on your family; by destroying many nations you have only brought ruin on yourself.

New Revised Standard Version
You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.

Contemporary English Version
But you will bring shame on your family and ruin to yourself for what you did to others.

New American Bible
You have devised shame for your household, cutting off many peoples, forfeiting your own life;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast devised confusion to thy house, thou hast cut off many people, and thy soul hath sinned.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast devised confusion to thy house, thou hast cut off many people, and thy soul hath sinned.

consulted.

2 Kings 9:26 If I do not requite thee in this field, saith the Lord, for the blood of Naboth, and for the blood of his children, which I saw yesterday, saith the Lord. So now take him, and cast him into the field, according to the word of the Lord.

2 Kings 10:7 And when the letters came to them, they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezrahel.

Isaiah 14:20-22 Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the wicked shall not be named for ever. . . .

Jeremiah 22:30 Thus saith the Lord: Write this man barren, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for there shall not be a man of his seed that shall sit upon the throne of David, and have power any more in Juda.

Jeremiah 36:31 And I will punish him, and his seed and his servants, for their iniquities, and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Juda all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they have not heard.

Nahum 1:14 And the Lord will give a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name shall be sown: I will destroy the graven and molten thing out of the house of thy God, I will make it thy grave, for thou art disgraced.

Matthew 27:25 And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and upon our children.

sinned.

Numbers 16:38 In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may see them for a sign and a memorial.

1 Kings 2:23 Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying: So and so may God do to me, and add more, if Adonias hath not spoken this word against his own life.

Proverbs 1:18 So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.

Proverbs 8:36 Wisdom hath built herself a house, she hath hewn her out seven pillars.

Isaiah 33:11 You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath as fire shall devour you.

Context
Woe to the Chaldeans
9Woe to him that gathereth together an evil covetousness to his house, that his nest may be on high, and thinketh he may be delivered out of the hand of evil. 10Thou hast devised confusion to thy house, thou hast cut off many people, and thy soul hath sinned.11For the stone shall cry out of the wall: and the timber that is between the joints of the building, shall answer.…
Cross References
2 Kings 9:26
If I do not requite thee in this field, saith the Lord, for the blood of Naboth, and for the blood of his children, which I saw yesterday, saith the Lord. So now take him, and cast him into the field, according to the word of the Lord.

Proverbs 20:2
As the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread of a king: he that provoketh him, sinneth against his own soul.

Jeremiah 26:19
Did Ezechias king of Juda, and all Juda, condemn him to death? did they not fear the Lord, and beseech the face of the Lord: and the Lord repented of the evil that he had spoken against them? therefore we are doing a great evil against our souls.

Jeremiah 44:7
And now thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against your own souls, that there should die of you man and woman, child and suckling out of the midst of Juda, and no remnant should be left you:

Nahum 1:14
And the Lord will give a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name shall be sown: I will destroy the graven and molten thing out of the house of thy God, I will make it thy grave, for thou art disgraced.

Habakkuk 2:16
Thou art filled with shame instead of glory: drink thou also, and fall fast asleep: the cup of the right hand of the Lord shall compass thee, and shameful vomiting shall be on thy glory.

Habakkuk 2:9
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