Parallel Verses
Amplified
“For the stone will cry out from the wall [to accuse you—built in sin!]
And the rafter will answer it out of the woodwork.
New American Standard Bible
And the rafter will answer it from the
King James Version
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Holman Bible
and the rafters will answer them
from the woodwork.
International Standard Version
Indeed, the stone will cry out from the wall and the rafter will respond from the woodwork."
A Conservative Version
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
American Standard Version
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Bible in Basic English
For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.
Darby Translation
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Julia Smith Translation
For the stone from the wall shall cry out, and the cross-beam from the wood shall answer it.
King James 2000
For the stone shall cry out from the wall, and the beam from the timber shall answer it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For the stone will cry out from the wall, and [the] plaster from [the] wood will answer it.
Modern King James verseion
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
so that the very stones of the wall shall cry out of it, and the timber that lieth betwixt the joints of the building shall answer.
NET Bible
For the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer back.
New Heart English Bible
For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
The Emphasized Bible
Surely, the stone out of the wall, will make outcry, - and, the tie out of the timber, will answer it.
Webster
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
World English Bible
For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
Youngs Literal Translation
For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it.
Themes
Glory » Whose glory becomes shame
Iniquity » Those that build a city with iniquity
Profit » Those that profit from violence
Shame » Whose glory becomes shame
Interlinear
'eben
Za`aq
Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 2:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Doom On The Unrighteous
10
“You have devised a shameful thing for your house
By cutting off and putting an end to many peoples;
So you are sinning against your own life and forfeiting it.
“For the stone will cry out from the wall [to accuse you—built in sin!]
And the rafter will answer it out of the woodwork.
“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who builds a city with bloodshed
And establishes a town by violence!
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Luke 19:40
Jesus replied,
Joshua 24:27
Joshua then said to all the people, “Look, this stone shall serve as a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the Lord which He spoke to us; so it shall be a witness against you, so that [afterward] you do not deny your God.”
Genesis 4:10
The Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s [innocent] blood is crying out to Me from the ground [for justice].
Job 31:38-40
“For if my land has cried out against me,
And its furrows weep together;
Hebrews 12:24
and to Jesus, the Mediator of a new covenant [uniting God and man], and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks [of mercy], a better and nobler and more gracious message than the blood of Abel [which cried out for vengeance].
James 5:3-4
Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up your treasure in the last days [when it will do you no good].
Revelation 6:10
They cried in a loud voice, saying, “O Lord, holy and true, how long now before You will sit in judgment and avenge our blood on those [unregenerate ones] who dwell on the earth?”