OLD TESTAMENT

Habakkuk 2:12

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12

Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

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Verse 12. Wo. This might be explained of Nabuchodonosor; but we rather understand the king of Tyre, whose pride was intolerable. Ezekiel 28. It seems useless to repeat so often the same threats against one king. Calmet.

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