Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will 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.
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.
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 shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul. 11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it. 12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Luke 19:40
He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out."
Joshua 24:27
Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of the LORD which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God."
Genesis 4:10
The LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
Job 31:38-40
If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;
Hebrews 12:24
to Jesus, the mediator of a New Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
James 5:3-4
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
Revelation 6:10
They called out with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"