Habakkuk 2:11

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For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the wooden beam will answer it.

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  • Luke 19:40 : 40 He answered, 'I tell you, if they were silent, the stones would cry out.'
  • Josh 24:27 : 27 And Joshua said to all the people, "See, this stone will serve as a witness against us. It has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us. It will be a witness against you if you deny your God.
  • Job 31:38-40 : 38 If my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together, 39 if I have eaten its produce without payment and caused the death of its owners, 40 then let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
  • Gen 4:10 : 10 The LORD said, 'What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground.'
  • Heb 12:24 : 24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
  • Jas 5:3-4 : 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look, the wages that you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
  • Rev 6:10 : 10 They cried out with a loud voice, 'How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until You judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 12Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town with injustice!

  • Hab 2:9-10
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    9Woe to the one who gains unjust wealth for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of calamity!

    10You have planned disgrace for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your own life.

  • 11For the LORD has given the command: The great house will be shattered into pieces, and the small house into bits.

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    10Because they have misled my people by saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because when a flimsy wall is built, they plaster it over with whitewash,

    11say to those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be a flooding rain, hailstones will fall, and a stormy wind will break it.

    12When the wall falls, people will ask you, ‘Where is the whitewash you applied?’

  • Hab 2:19-20
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    19Woe to him who says to wood, 'Awake!' or to silent stone, 'Arise!' Can it teach? Look, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath at all within it.

    20But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.

  • 11They gave it to the craftsmen and builders to buy dressed stones, timber for joists, and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into ruin.

  • Jer 22:13-14
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    13Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice, making his neighbor work for nothing and not paying him for his labor.

    14He says, 'I will build for myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' cutting out large windows for it, paneling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion.

  • 11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from them, though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; though you have planted delightful vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

  • 16'What right do you have here, and who gave you the right to be here, that you carve out a tomb for yourself here, cutting out a burial site on the height and chiseling your resting place in the rock?'

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    14I will break down the wall that you plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. It will collapse, and you will perish within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

    15So I will pour out my wrath on the wall and on those who plaster it with whitewash. I will tell you, ‘The wall is gone, and so are those who plastered it,’

  • 9I will give your servants, the woodcutters who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand gallons of wine, and twenty thousand gallons of oil.

  • 21This temple, which was so exalted, will be appalling to every passerby who sees it. They will say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?'

  • 10But the LORD has strengthened Rezin’s adversaries against them and has stirred up their enemies.

  • 8And this temple, now exalted, will become a heap of ruins. Everyone who passes by it will be appalled and will hiss, saying, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land and this temple?'

  • 7The house, when it was being built, was constructed of finished stone cut from the quarry, so that no hammer or axe or any iron tool was heard in the house while it was being built.

  • 6the carpenters, builders, and masons. It shall also be used to buy timber and quarried stone for repairing the house.

  • 10On that day—this is the Lord’s declaration—there will be an outcry from the Fish Gate, wailing from the Second District, and a loud crash from the hills.

  • 13'this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.'

  • 10You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore down houses to fortify the wall.

  • 9One who quarries stones may be hurt by them, and one who splits wood may be endangered by it.

  • 12From the city, the dying groan, and the life of the wounded cries out, but God does not regard their folly.

  • 2David commanded the gathering of the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, and he appointed stonecutters to prepare dressed stones to build the house of God.

  • 42Then they shall take other stones to replace those removed and reapply the plaster over the house.

  • 12They would give the prepared money to the workers appointed to oversee the repairs to the temple of the LORD. They used it to pay the carpenters and builders working on the temple of the LORD,

  • 2Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the majestic trees are destroyed! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has come down!

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    17You know that my father, David, could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the wars waged against him from all directions until the LORD put his enemies under the soles of his feet.

    18But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary nor misfortune.

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    7The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary. He has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They raised their voices in the house of the LORD as on a day of appointed festival.

    8The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not turn back his hand from destroying. He caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.

  • 11To the house of the king of Judah: Hear the word of the LORD.

  • 5In their sight, dig through the wall and carry your belongings through it.

  • 12Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.

  • 6Now they smash all its carved work together with hatchets and hammers.

  • 2Yet He is wise and brings disaster; He does not take back His words. He will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who practice wickedness.

  • 22The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

  • 10Confuse, O Lord, and divide their speech, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

  • 10You build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.

  • 11Above were precious stones cut to measure, along with cedar wood.

  • 26No stone will be taken from you for a cornerstone or foundation, for you will be desolate forever, declares the Lord.

  • 1This is an oracle concerning the Valley of Vision: What is wrong with you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops?

  • 40They will bring a crowd against you, stone you to death, and cut you to pieces with their swords.

  • 8Go up into the mountains, bring down timber, and build the house, so that I may be pleased with it and be glorified, says the LORD.

  • 45The house must be demolished, with all its stones, timbers, and plaster taken outside the city to an unclean place.

  • 9The Lord of Hosts said in my hearing: Truly, many houses will become desolate—large and beautiful ones, without occupants.