Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Habakkuk 2:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
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Quick Meaning
This verse shows the high-house plan bringing shame by cutting off peoples and thereby harming the planner's own life.
Read It With
- Habakkuk 2:9-11
Read Habakkuk 2:10 with 2:9-11. This verse shows the high-house plan bringing shame by cutting off peoples and thereby harming the planner's own life. The full unit establishes this movement: The oppressor tries to secure his house above disaster through evil gain, but violence against peoples brings shame and turns the very materials of the house into witnesses.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The taunt moves from hoarded goods to the security project they fund and shows that a structure cannot hide the harm embedded in it. Within that movement, this verse shows the high-house plan bringing shame by cutting off peoples and thereby harming the planner's own life.
What Remains True
Plans that destroy others also corrupt their authors.
How It Can Shape Life
- Include human cost and long-term moral injury in strategic review.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Habakkuk 2:9-11 — Second Woe: A High Nest Cannot Silence the HouseSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The plural peoples can denote conquered groups broadly rather than one event.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact displayed Scripture, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and canonical verse coverage.
Exact location: Habakkuk 2:9-11, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Habakkuk
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, repeated terms, clause relationships, and base forms behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Hab.xml, 2:9-11
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Habakkuk with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, Hebrew, text-critical, literary, historical, and uncertainty notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Habakkuk PDF, printed pp. 1772-1773, translation and notes on 2:9-11
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