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Selected Verse: Habakkuk 2:10 - King James

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Hab 2:10 King James Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Thou hast consulted shame . . . by cutting off many--MAURER, more literally, "Thou hast consulted shame . . . to destroy many," that is, in consulting (determining) to cut off many, thou hast consulted shame to thy house.

sinned against thy soul--that is, against thyself; thou art the guilty cause of thine own ruin (Pro 8:36; Pro 20:2). They who wrong their neighbors, do much greater wrong to their own souls.
 
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2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;