Habakkuk 2:6

The conquered nations will take up a taunting proverb against Babylon, beginning the first woe against those who pile up stolen wealth. It announces that the oppressor will become an object of mockery and judgment.

Cross-references · 21

• Jer 29:22Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’
• Job 20:15–29He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
• Isa 14:4–19you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
• Mic 2:4In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
• Jer 50:13Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.
• Num 23:7And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’
• Ezek 32:21Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her allies: ‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’
• Hab 1:9–10All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.
• Hab 1:15The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.
• Hab 2:13Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
• Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
• 1 Cor 7:29–31What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;
• Jas 5:1–4Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
• Ps 94:3How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult?
• Num 23:18Then Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Arise, O Balak, and listen; give ear to me, O son of Zippor.
• 1 Pet 4:7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
• Jer 51:34–35“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
• Prov 22:16Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
• Isa 55:2Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.
• Isa 44:20He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
• Job 22:6–10For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

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