Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth 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.
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.
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 hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful is thy soul. 11 For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it. 12 Woe to him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Luke 19:40
and he answering said to them, 'I say to you, that, if these shall be silent, the stones will cry out!'
Joshua 24:27
And Joshua saith unto all the people, 'Lo, this stone is against us for a witness, for it hath heard all the sayings of Jehovah which He hath spoken with us, and it hath been against you for a witness, lest ye lie against your God.'
Genesis 4:10
And He saith, 'What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying unto Me from the ground;
Job 31:38-40
If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,
Hebrews 12:24
and to a mediator of a new covenant -- Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!
James 5:3-4
your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!
Revelation 6:10
and they were crying with a great voice, saying, 'Till when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?'