Habakkuk 2:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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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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Hab 2:12
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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.
Amos 6:11
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11For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Ezek 13:10-12
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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
2 verses
75%
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.
2 Chr 34:11
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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;
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Amos 5:11
73%
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.
Isa 22:16
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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!
Ezek 13:14-15
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72%
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;
2 Chr 2:9
71%
9even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
2 Chr 7:21
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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?
Isa 9:10
71%
10The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.
1 Kgs 9:8
71%
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?
1 Kgs 6:7
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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.
2 Kgs 22:6
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Zeph 1:10
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Isa 30:13
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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.
Isa 22:10
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10and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall;
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Job 24:12
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12From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly.
1 Chr 22:2
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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.
Lev 14:42
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2 Kgs 12:12
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Zech 11:2
70%
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70%
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Lam 2:7-8
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70%
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.
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Jer 21:11
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11And touching the house of the king of Judah, hear ye the word of Jehovah:
Ezek 12:5
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5Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Mic 3:12
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Ps 74:6
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Isa 31:2
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Ps 118:22
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22The stone which the builders rejected Is become the head of the corner.
Ps 55:10
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Mic 3:10
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1 Kgs 7:11
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11And above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
Jer 51:26
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Isa 22:1
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Ezek 16:40
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Lev 14:45
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Isa 5:9
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