Habakkuk 2:11

American Standard Version (1901)

For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 19:40 : 40 And he answered and said, I tell you that, if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.
  • Josh 24:27 : 27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it hath heard all the words of Jehovah which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest ye deny your God.
  • Job 31:38-40 : 38 If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together; 39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: 40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
  • Gen 4:10 : 10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
  • Heb 12:24 : 24 and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than [that of] Abel.
  • Jas 5:3-4 : 3 Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
  • Rev 6:10 : 10 and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 12Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!

  • Hab 2:9-10
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    9Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

    10Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul.

  • 11For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

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    10Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and when one buildeth up a wall, behold, they daub it with untempered [mortar] :

    11say unto them that daub it with untempered [mortar], that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.

    12Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?

  • Hab 2:19-20
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    19Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

    20But Jehovah is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

  • 11even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

  • Jer 22:13-14
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    13Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbor's service without wages, and giveth him not his hire;

    14that saith, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

  • 11Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

  • 16What doest thou here? and whom has thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre? hewing him out a sepulchre on high, graving a habitation for himself in the rock!

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    14So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered [mortar], and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

    15Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered [mortar] ; and I will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;

  • 9even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

  • 21And this house, which is so high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why hath Jehovah done thus unto this land, and to this house?

  • 10The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.

  • 8And though this house is so high, yet shall every one that passeth by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath Jehovah done thus unto this land, and to this house?

  • 7And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

  • 6unto the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

  • 10And in that day, saith Jehovah, there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

  • 13therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant.

  • 10and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall;

  • 9Whoso heweth out stones shall be hurt therewith; [and] he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby.

  • 12From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly.

  • 2And David commanded to gather together the sojourners that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

  • 42and they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.

  • 12and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Jehovah, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

  • 2Wail, O fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the goodly ones are destroyed: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest is come down.

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    17And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone.

    18And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

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    7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary; He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

    8Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; And he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

  • 11And touching the house of the king of Judah, hear ye the word of Jehovah:

  • 5Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

  • 12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

  • 6And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.

  • 2Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

  • 22The stone which the builders rejected Is become the head of the corner.

  • 10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.

  • 10They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

  • 11And above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.

  • 26And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith Jehovah.

  • 1The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

  • 40They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

  • 8Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Jehovah.

  • 45And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.

  • 9In mine ears [saith] Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.