Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Indeed, the stone will cry out from the wall and the rafter will respond from 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.
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.
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.
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 brought shame to yourself by killing many people you are forfeiting your own life. 11 Indeed, the stone will cry out from the wall and the rafter will respond from the woodwork." 12 "Woe to the one who founds a city upon bloodshed, and constructs a city by lawlessness.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Luke 19:40
He replied, "I tell you, if they were quiet, the stones would cry out!"
Joshua 24:27
and then told all of the people, "Look! This stone will testify for us, because it has heard everything that the LORD has spoken to us. So it will stand as a witness against you in the event that you deny your God."
Genesis 4:10
"What did you do?" God asked. "Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.
Job 31:38-40
"If my land were to cry out against me or if all its furrows wept as one,
Hebrews 12:24
to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better message than Abel's.
James 5:3-4
your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be used as evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasures in these last days.
Revelation 6:10
They cried out in a loud voice, "Holy and true Sovereign, how long will it be before you judge and take revenge on those living on the earth who shed our blood?"