Habakkuk 2 · Verse 10

Habakkuk 2:10

Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
Habakkuk 2:10, King James Version

Habakkuk 2:10 in other translations

BSBYou have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.
WEBYou have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
ASVThou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul.
YLTThou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful is thy soul.
DARBYThou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thine own soul.
BBEYou have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.
WebsterThou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

What does Habakkuk 2:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. Thou hast consulted shame ... by cutting off many--Maurer, more literally, "Thou hast consulted shame ... to destroy many," that is, in consulting (determining) to cut off many, thou hast consulted shame to thy house. sinned against thy soul--that is, against thyself; thou art the guilty cause of thine own ruin (Pr 8:36; 20:2). They who wrong their neighbors, do much greater wrong to their own souls.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 Hast sinned against thy soul - Thy life is forfeited by thy crimes.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Habakkuk 2:5-14

The prophet reads the doom of all proud and oppressive powers that bear hard upon God's people. The lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, are the entangling snares of men; and we find him that led Israel captive, himself led captive by each of these. No more of what we have is to be reckoned ours, than what we come honestly by. Riches are but clay, thick clay; what are gold and silver but…

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Habakkuk 2:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יָעַ֥צְתָּya.'Atz.tayou have plannedH3289
בֹּ֖שֶׁתBo.shetshameH1322
לְבֵיתֶ֑ךָle.vei.Te.khafor house yourH1004
קְצוֹת\־ke.tzot-by cutting offH7096
עַמִּ֥ים'a.MimpeoplesH5971
רַבִּ֖יםra.BimmanyH7227
וְחוֹטֵ֥אve.cho.Te'and [you have] sinnedH2398
נַפְשֶֽׁךָ\׃naf.She.khaself yourH5315

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Habakkuk 2:10

  • Nahum 1:14

    And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

  • 2 Kings 9:26

    Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the Lord; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the Lord. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the Lord.

  • Numbers 16:38

    The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kings 10:7

    And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.

  • Jeremiah 36:31

    And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.

  • Isaiah 14:20-22

    Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.

  • Matthew 27:25

    Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

  • Jeremiah 26:19

    Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the Lord, and besought the Lord, and the Lord repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

  • Proverbs 1:18

    And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

  • Isaiah 33:11

    Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

  • Jeremiah 22:30

    Thus saith the Lord, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

  • Habakkuk 2:16

    Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the Lord’s right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.

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consulted.
2Ki 9:26; 10:7; Isa 14:20-22; Jer 22:30; 36:31; Na 1:14; Mt 27:25
sinned.
Nu 16:38; 1Ki 2:23; Pr 1:18; 8:36; Isa 33:11

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Context

  • Habakkuk 2:9

    Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

  • Habakkuk 2:10

    Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

  • Habakkuk 2:11

    For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

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Habakkuk 2:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Tomaste consejo vergonzoso para tu casa, asolaste muchos pueblos, y has pecado contra tu vida.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tu as pris conseil pour couvrir de honte ta maison, pour détruire beaucoup de peuples, et tu as péché contre ta propre âme.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Du hast Schande beratschlagt für dein Haus, die Vertilgung vieler Völker, und hast dein Leben verschuldet
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Cogitasti confusionem domui tuæ; concidisti populos multos, et peccavit anima tua.