Cross references

Habakkuk 2:17

For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you,

and the destruction of animals will terrify you,

because of your bloodshed against men

and your violence against the land, the city,

and all their dwellers.

Habakkuk 2:17 BSB

Habakkuk 2:17 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Habakkuk 2:8 (7 votes) and Psalm 55:23 (4 votes). 21 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Genesis 6 to Revelation 18.

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Which verses does Habakkuk 2:17 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you—because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

  2. But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

  3. Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!

  4. O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

  5. A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.

  6. Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.

  7. This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “The sons of Israel are oppressed, and the sons of Judah as well. All their captors hold them fast, refusing to release them. Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of Hosts is His name. He will fervently plead their case so that He may bring rest to the earth, but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.

  8. Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.

  9. “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. May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem. …

  10. Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her. Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again. …

Which verses point to Habakkuk 2:17?

The 10 strongest of 21.