Habakkuk 2:11
Good News Translation
Even the stones of the walls cry out against you, and the rafters echo the cry.

New Revised Standard Version
The very stones will cry out from the wall, and the plaster will respond from the woodwork.

Contemporary English Version
The very stones and wood in your home will testify against you.

New American Bible
For the stone in the wall shall cry out, and the beam in the frame shall answer it!

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the stone shall cry out of the wall: and the timber that is between the joints of the building, shall answer.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the stone shall cry out of the wall: and the timber that is between the joints of the building, shall answer.

the stone.

Genesis 4:10 And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth.

Joshua 24:27 And he said to all the people: Behold this stone shall be a testimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie to the Lord your God.

Job 31:38-40 If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn: . . .

Luke 19:40 To whom he said: I say to you that if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new testament, and to the sprinkling of blood which speaketh better than that of Abel.

James 5:3,4 Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days. . . .

Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord (Holy and True), dost thou not judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

beam.

Context
Woe to the Chaldeans
10Thou hast devised confusion to thy house, thou hast cut off many people, and thy soul hath sinned. 11For the stone shall cry out of the wall: and the timber that is between the joints of the building, shall answer.12Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and prepareth a city by iniquity.…
Cross References
Luke 19:40
To whom he said: I say to you that if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

Joshua 24:27
And he said to all the people: Behold this stone shall be a testimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie to the Lord your God.

Lamentations 2:18
Sade. Their heart cried to the Lord upon the walls of the daughter of Sion: Let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give thyself no rest, and let not the apple of thy eye cease.

Habakkuk 2:10
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