Habakkuk 2:10 (WEB)

Passage

You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

Nearby Context

Habakkuk 2:8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

Habakkuk 2:9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

Habakkuk 2:10 You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

Habakkuk 2:11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

Habakkuk 2:12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "devised", "shame", "house", "cutting", "peoples", "sinned", "against", and "soul". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "devised" and "shame", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "Woe to him who gets an evil..." into verse 11's "For the stone will cry out of...", so "devised" and "shame" belong inside that flow. In Habakkuk context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "devised" and "shame" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.