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Atomic Bible
Habakkuk 2:9
Woe to him who builds his house
from Woe to the Chaldeans, Habakkuk 2:6-20
What it says

Woe is pronounced on the one who gains evil profit to set his house in a place of imagined safety.

What it is doing

This verse begins the judgment on unjustly built security.

In context

6Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, 7Will not your creditors suddenly arise 8Because you have plundered many nations, 9Woe to him who builds his house 10You have plotted shame for your house 11For the stones will cry out from the wall, 12Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed 13Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts 14For the earth will be filled 15Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, 16You will be filled with shame instead of glory. 17For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, 18What use is an idol, 19Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ 20But the LORD is in His holy temple;