Holy Scripture
Habakkuk 2:12
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 12 and following) Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed, and establishes a town with injustice: are these things not from the Lord of hosts? For the peoples shall labor in vain, and the nations shall exhaust themselves: for the earth shall be filled, that they may know the glory of the Lord as the waters…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12Woe to him that builds a city with blood, and establishes a city by unrighteousness.
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In context
10Thou hast devised shame to thy house, thou hast utterly destroyed many nations, and thy soul has sinned.
11For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beetle out of the timber shall speak.
— Habakkuk 2:12 —
13Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.
14For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord; it shall cover them as water.