Habakkuk 2:6 Cross References
Habakkuk 2:6
6: But the time is coming when all their captives will taunt them, saying, `You thieves! At last justice has caught up with you! Now you will get what you deserve for your oppression and extortion!'
Job 20:15
- He will vomit the wealth he swallowed. God won't let him keep it down.
- He will suck the poison of snakes. The viper will kill him.
- He will never again enjoy abundant streams of olive oil or rivers of milk and honey.
- His labors will not be rewarded. His wealth will bring him no joy.
- For he oppressed the poor and left them destitute. He foreclosed on their homes.
Numbers 23:7
- This was the prophecy Balaam delivered: "Balak summoned me to come from Aram; the king of Moab brought me from the eastern hills. `Come,' he said, `curse Jacob for me! Come and announce Israel's doom.'
Micah 2:4
- In that day your enemies will make fun of you by singing this song of despair about your experience: "We are finished, completely ruined! God has confiscated our land, taking it from us. He has given our fields to those who betrayed us. "
Jeremiah 50:13
- Because of the LORD's anger, Babylon will become a deserted wasteland. All who pass by will be horrified and will gasp at the destruction they see there.
1 Peter 4:7
- The end of the world is coming soon. Therefore, be earnest and disciplined in your prayers.
Isaiah 14:4
- you will taunt the king of Babylon. You will say, "The mighty man has been destroyed. Yes, your insolence is ended.
- For the LORD has crushed your wicked power and broken your evil rule.
- You persecuted the people with unceasing blows of rage and held the nations in your angry grip. Your tyranny was unrestrained.
- But at last the land is at rest and is quiet. Finally it can sing again!
- Even the trees of the forest--the cypress trees and the cedars of Lebanon--sing out this joyous song: `Your power is broken! No one will come to cut us down now!'
Jeremiah 29:22
- Their terrible fate will become proverbial, so that whenever the Judean exiles want to curse someone they will say, `May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned alive!'
Isaiah 44:20
- The poor, deluded fool feeds on ashes. He is trusting something that can give him no help at all. Yet he cannot bring himself to ask, "Is this thing, this idol that I'm holding in my hand, a lie?"
Numbers 23:18
- This was the prophecy Balaam delivered: "Rise up, Balak, and listen! Hear me, son of Zippor.
James 5:1
- Look here, you rich people, weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you.
- Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags.
- Your gold and silver have become worthless. The very wealth you were counting on will eat away your flesh in hell. This treasure you have accumulated will stand as evidence against you on the day of judgment.
- For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The wages you held back cry out against you. The cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
Habakkuk 1:15
- Must we be strung up on their hooks and dragged out in their nets while they rejoice?
Luke 12:20
- "But God said to him, 'You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get it all?'
Jeremiah 51:34
- "King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has eaten and crushed us and emptied out our strength. He has swallowed us like a great monster and filled his belly with our riches. He has thrown us out of our own country.
- May Babylon be repaid for all the violence she did to us," say the people of Jerusalem. "May the people of Babylonia be paid in full for all the blood they spilled," says Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 32:21
- Down in the grave mighty leaders will mockingly welcome Egypt and its allies, saying, `They have come down; they lie among the outcasts, all victims of the sword.'
Proverbs 22:16
- A person who gets ahead by oppressing the poor or by showering gifts on the rich will end in poverty.
Job 22:6
- "For example, you must have lent money to your friend and then kept the clothing he gave you as a pledge. Yes, you stripped him to the bone.
- You must have refused water for the thirsty and food for the hungry.
- After all, you think the land belongs to the powerful and that those who are privileged have a right to it!
- You must have sent widows away without helping them and crushed the strength of orphans.
- That is why you are surrounded by traps and sudden fears.
1 Corinthians 7:29
- Now let me say this, dear brothers and sisters: The time that remains is very short, so husbands should not let marriage be their major concern.
- Happiness or sadness or wealth should not keep anyone from doing God's work.
- Those in frequent contact with the things of the world should make good use of them without becoming attached to them, for this world and all it contains will pass away.
Habakkuk 1:9
- "On they come, all of them bent on violence. Their hordes advance like a wind from the desert, sweeping captives ahead of them like sand.
- They scoff at kings and princes and scorn all their defenses. They simply pile ramps of earth against their walls and capture them!
Habakkuk 2:13
- Has not the LORD Almighty promised that the wealth of nations will turn to ashes? They work so hard, but all in vain!
Isaiah 55:2
- Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength? Why pay for food that does you no good? Listen, and I will tell you where to get food that is good for the soul!
Psalms 94:3
- How long, O LORD? How long will the wicked be allowed to gloat?