10 You have plotted the ruin(A) of many peoples,
    shaming(B) your own house and forfeiting your life.

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14 The Lord has given a command concerning you, Nineveh:
    “You will have no descendants to bear your name.(A)
I will destroy the images(B) and idols
    that are in the temple of your gods.
I will prepare your grave,(C)
    for you are vile.”

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26 ‘Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth(A) and the blood of his sons, declares the Lord, and I will surely make you pay for it on this plot of ground, declares the Lord.’[a] Now then, pick him up and throw him on that plot, in accordance with the word of the Lord.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 9:26 See 1 Kings 21:19.

25 All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”(A)

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16 You will be filled with shame(A) instead of glory.(B)
    Now it is your turn! Drink(C) and let your nakedness be exposed[a]!(D)
The cup(E) from the Lord’s right hand is coming around to you,
    and disgrace will cover your glory.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:16 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, Aquila, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint) and stagger

31 I will punish him and his children(A) and his attendants for their wickedness; I will bring on them and those living in Jerusalem and the people of Judah every disaster(B) I pronounced against them, because they have not listened.(C)’”

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19 “Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did not Hezekiah(A) fear the Lord and seek(B) his favor? And did not the Lord relent,(C) so that he did not bring the disaster(D) he pronounced against them? We are about to bring a terrible disaster(E) on ourselves!”

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30 This is what the Lord says:
“Record this man as if childless,(A)
    a man who will not prosper(B) in his lifetime,
for none of his offspring(C) will prosper,
    none will sit on the throne(D) of David
    or rule anymore in Judah.”

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11 You conceive(A) chaff,
    you give birth(B) to straw;
    your breath is a fire(C) that consumes you.

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20     you will not join them in burial,(A)
for you have destroyed your land
    and killed your people.

Let the offspring(B) of the wicked(C)
    never be mentioned(D) again.
21 Prepare a place to slaughter his children(E)
    for the sins of their ancestors;(F)
they are not to rise to inherit the land
    and cover the earth with their cities.

22 “I will rise up(G) against them,”
    declares the Lord Almighty.
“I will wipe out Babylon’s name(H) and survivors,
    her offspring and descendants,(I)
declares the Lord.

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36 But those who fail to find me harm themselves;(A)
    all who hate me love death.”(B)

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18 These men lie in wait(A) for their own blood;
    they ambush only themselves!(B)

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When the letter arrived, these men took the princes and slaughtered all seventy(A) of them. They put their heads(B) in baskets and sent them to Jehu in Jezreel.

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23 Then King Solomon swore by the Lord: “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely,(A) if Adonijah does not pay with his life for this request!

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38 the censers of the men who sinned at the cost of their lives.(A) Hammer the censers into sheets to overlay the altar,(B) for they were presented before the Lord and have become holy. Let them be a sign(C) to the Israelites.”

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