Compare Translations for Habakkuk 2:12

12 Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and founds a town with injustice!
12 "Woe to him who builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity!
12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
12 "Who do you think you are - building a town by murder, a city with crime?
12 "Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed And founds a town with violence!
12 “Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice!
12 "Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, Who establishes a city by iniquity!
12 “What sorrow awaits you who build cities with money gained through murder and corruption!
12 "Alas for you who build a town by bloodshed, and found a city on iniquity!"
12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!
12 A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!
12 Pity the one building a city with bloodshed and founding a village with injustice.
12 Pity the one building a city with bloodshed and founding a village with injustice.
12 "'Woe to him who builds a city with blood and founds a town on injustice,
12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by unrighteousness!
12 You are doomed! You founded a city on crime and built it up by murder.
12 You are doomed! You founded a city on crime and built it up by murder.
12 "'How horrible it will be for the one who builds a city by slaughter and founds a town by crime.'
12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
12 Woe to him that builds the city with blood and founds the village with iniquity!
12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
12 Woe to [him who] builds a city by bloodguilt, and [who] founds a city by wickedness!
12 "How terrible it will be for the nation that kills people to build a city, that wrongs others to start a town.
12 "How terrible it will be for the Babylonians! They build cities by spilling the blood of others. They establish towns by committing crimes.
12 "Alas for you who build a town by bloodshed, and found a city on iniquity!"
12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and prepareth a city by iniquity.
12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and founds a city on iniquity!
12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and founds a city on iniquity!
12 "Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!
12 "Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!
12 vae qui aedificat civitatem in sanguinibus et praeparat urbem in iniquitate
12 vae qui aedificat civitatem in sanguinibus et praeparat urbem in iniquitate
12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!
12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
12 Woe to him that buildeth a city in bloods, and maketh ready a city in wickedness. (Woe to you who buildeth a city with bloodshed, or with murder, and who maketh ready a city with wickedness.)
12 Wo [to] him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity.

Habakkuk 2:12 Commentaries