Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For the stone from the wall shall cry out, and the cross-beam from the wood shall answer it.
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.
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.
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 Thou wilt counsel shame to thy house, cutting off many peoples, and causing thy soul to sin. 11 For the stone from the wall shall cry out, and the cross-beam from the wood shall answer it. 12 Wo! to him building a city with bloods, and preparing a city by iniquity.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Luke 19:40
And having answered, he said to them, I say to you that if these should be silent, the stones shall cry out.
Joshua 24:27
And Joshua will say to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be to us for a testimony, for it heard all the sayings of Jehovah which he spake with us: and it was to you for a testimony lest ye shall lie to your God.
Genesis 4:10
And he will say, What didst thou? the voice of thy brother's bloods, crying out to me from the earth.
Job 31:38-40
If my land shall cry against me, and its, furrows shall weep together;
Hebrews 12:24
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than Abel.
James 5:3-4
Your gold and silver is become rusty; and their rust shall be for a witness to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have gathered up treasures in the last days.
Revelation 6:10
And they cried with a great voice, saying, Till when, Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood of them dwelling upon earth