Habakkuk 2:5 Cross References

Habakkuk 2:5

5: Wealth is treacherous, and the arrogant are never at rest. They range far and wide, with their mouths opened as wide as death, but they are never satisfied. In their greed they have gathered up many nations and peoples.

Proverbs 27:20

  1. Just as Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so human desire is never satisfied.

Proverbs 20:1

  1. Wine produces mockers; liquor leads to brawls. Whoever is led astray by drink cannot be wise.

Daniel 5:1

  1. A number of years later, King Belshazzar gave a great feast for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them.
  2. While Belshazzar was drinking, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver cups that his predecessor, Nebuchadnezzar, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem, so that he and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.
  3. So they brought these gold cups taken from the Temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.
  4. They drank toasts from them to honor their idols made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Proverbs 31:4

  1. And it is not for kings, O Lemuel, to guzzle wine. Rulers should not crave liquor.
  2. For if they drink, they may forget their duties and be unable to give justice to those who are oppressed.

Isaiah 5:11

  1. Destruction is certain for you who get up early to begin long drinking bouts that last late into the night.
  2. You furnish lovely music and wine at your grand parties; the harps, lyres, tambourines, and flutes are superb! But you never think about the LORD or notice what he is doing.

Proverbs 23:29

  1. Who has anguish? Who has sorrow? Who is always fighting? Who is always complaining? Who has unnecessary bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
  2. It is the one who spends long hours in the taverns, trying out new drinks.
  3. Don't let the sparkle and smooth taste of wine deceive you.
  4. For in the end it bites like a poisonous serpent; it stings like a viper.
  5. You will see hallucinations, and you will say crazy things.

2 Kings 14:10

  1. You have indeed destroyed Edom and are very proud about it. Be content with your victory and stay at home! Why stir up trouble that will bring disaster on you and the people of Judah?"

Ecclesiastes 5:10

  1. Those who love money will never have enough. How absurd to think that wealth brings true happiness!

Psalms 138:6

  1. Though the LORD is great, he cares for the humble, but he keeps his distance from the proud.

Jeremiah 50:29

  1. "Send out a call for archers to come to Babylon. Surround the city so none can escape. Do to her as she has done to others, for she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

Nahum 1:9

  1. Why are you scheming against the LORD? He will destroy you with one blow; he won't need to strike twice!
  2. His enemies, tangled up like thorns, staggering like drunks, will be burned like dry straw in a field.

Isaiah 21:5

  1. Look! They are preparing a great feast. They are spreading rugs for people to sit on. Everyone is eating and drinking. Quick! Grab your shields and prepare for battle! You are being attacked!

Isaiah 5:8

  1. Destruction is certain for you who buy up property so others have no place to live. Your homes are built on great estates so you can be alone in the land.

Isaiah 16:6

  1. Is this Moab, the proud land we have heard so much about? Its pride and insolence are all gone now!

Daniel 5:20

  1. But when his heart and mind were hardened with pride, he was brought down from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
  2. He was driven from human society. He was given the mind of an animal, and he lived among the wild donkeys. He ate grass like a cow, and he was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God rules the kingdoms of the world and appoints anyone he desires to rule over them.
  3. "You are his successor, O Belshazzar, and you knew all this, yet you have not humbled yourself.
  4. For you have defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone--gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!

Isaiah 5:22

  1. Destruction is certain for those who are heroes when it comes to drinking, who boast about all the liquor they can hold.
  2. They take bribes to pervert justice. They let the wicked go free while punishing the innocent.

Jeremiah 51:39

  1. And while they lie inflamed with all their wine, I will prepare a different kind of feast for them. I will make them drink until they fall asleep, never again to waken," says the LORD.

Habakkuk 2:8

  1. You have plundered many nations; now they will plunder you. You murderers! You have filled the countryside with violence and all the cities, too.
  2. "How terrible it will be for you who get rich by unjust means! You believe your wealth will buy security, putting your families beyond the reach of danger.
  3. But by the murders you committed, you have shamed your name and forfeited your lives.

Isaiah 14:16

  1. Everyone there will stare at you and ask, `Can this be the one who shook the earth and the kingdoms of the world?
  2. Is this the one who destroyed the world and made it into a wilderness? Is this the king who demolished the world's greatest cities and had no mercy on his prisoners?'

James 4:6

  1. He gives us more and more strength to stand against such evil desires. As the Scriptures say, "God sets himself against the proud, but he shows favor to the humble."

Jeremiah 25:17

  1. So I took the cup of anger from the LORD and made all the nations drink from it--every nation the LORD sent me to.
  2. I went to Jerusalem and the other towns of Judah, and their kings and officials drank from the cup. From that day until this, they have been a desolate ruin, an object of horror, contempt, and cursing.
  3. I went to Egypt and spoke to Pharaoh, his officials, his princes, and his people. They, too, drank from that terrible cup,
  4. along with all the foreigners living in that land. So did all the kings of the land of Uz and the kings of the Philistine cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and what remains of Ashdod.
  5. Then I went to the nations of Edom, Moab, and Ammon,

Jeremiah 25:9

  1. I will gather together all the armies of the north under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, whom I have appointed as my deputy. I will bring them all against this land and its people and against the other nations near you. I will completely destroy you and make you an object of horror and contempt and a ruin forever.

Isaiah 2:11

  1. The day is coming when your pride will be brought low and the LORD alone will be exalted.
  2. In that day the LORD Almighty will punish the proud, bringing them down to the dust.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

  1. This should be your ambition: to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we commanded you before.

Isaiah 2:17

  1. The arrogance of all people will be brought low. Their pride will lie in the dust. The LORD alone will be exalted!

Habakkuk 2:4

  1. "Look at the proud! They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked; but the righteous will live by their faith.

Isaiah 10:7

  1. But the king of Assyria will not know that it is I who sent him. He will merely think he is attacking my people as part of his plan to conquer the world.
  2. He will say, `Each of my princes will soon be a king, ruling a conquered land.
  3. We will destroy Calno just as we did Carchemish. Hamath will fall before us as Arpad did. And we will destroy Samaria just as we did Damascus.
  4. Yes, we have finished off many a kingdom whose gods were far greater than those in Jerusalem and Samaria.
  5. So when we have defeated Samaria and her gods, we will destroy Jerusalem with hers.'"

Proverbs 30:13

  1. They are proud beyond description and disdainful.
  2. They devour the poor with teeth as sharp as swords or knives. They destroy the needy from the face of the earth.
  3. The leech has two suckers that cry out, "More, more!" There are three other things--no, four!--that are never satisfied:
  4. the grave, the barren womb, the thirsty desert, the blazing fire.
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