Habakkuk 2:10

10 By scheming to destroy many peoples, you have brought shame to your house and forfeited your life.

Habakkuk 2:10 Meaning and Commentary

Habakkuk 2:10

Thou hast consulted shame to thy house
Instead of bringing real honour and glory to their church, and that into the esteem of men, by such covetousness, ambition, and arrogance, they brought it into shame and disgrace, especially with all good men; and which they as effectually did as if they had studied it, and as if this was the thing they had in view in all their schemes and measures: this they procured by cutting off many people;
by making war with the saints, and killing great multitudes of them with the sword, as the Waldenses and Albigenses, and many of the Protestants by fire and faggot; and also by cutting off all such they called heretics and schismatics, with their anathemas and excommunications; neither of which were to their honour, but to their eternal infamy: and hast sinned [against] thy soul;
and exposed it to eternal damnation; that is, they sinned against the light and dictates of their own consciences, which is an aggravation of their sin, and might justly cause shame and confusion of mind.

Habakkuk 2:10 In-Context

8 Because you plundered many nations, all the rest of the peoples will plunder you; because of the bloodshed and violence done to the land, the city and all who live there.

9 "'Woe to him who seeks unjust gain for his household, putting his nest on the heights, in order to be safe from the reach of harm.

10 By scheming to destroy many peoples, you have brought shame to your house and forfeited your life.

11 For the very stones will cry out from the wall, and a beam in the framework will answer them.

12 "'Woe to him who builds a city with blood and founds a town on injustice,