Habakkuk 2:7

Suddenly the oppressor's own debtors will rise up, and the plunderer will become the plundered. It warns that those who exploit others will face sudden, fitting reversal.

Cross-references · 18

• Prov 29:1He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
• Jer 51:27–28“Set up a standard in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her! Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz! Appoint a marshal against her! Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm!
• Jer 50:21–32“Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill and utterly destroy after them,” says Yahweh, “and do according to all that I have commanded you.
• Jer 8:17“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you,” says Yahweh.
• Jer 51:11“Make the arrows sharp! Hold the shields firmly! Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.
• Isa 46:11I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.
• Isa 13:1–5The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
• Isa 41:25“I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
• Isa 47:11Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand.
• Isa 48:14–15“Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear; who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.
• Isa 45:1–3Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
• Isa 21:2–9A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
• Isa 13:16–18Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
• Eccl 10:8He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
• Dan 5:25–31This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
• Nah 1:9–10What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
• Jer 51:57I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
• 1 Th 5:3For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

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