Habakkuk 2:11
For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the wood that is between the joints of the building will respond.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
In Context
12Woe to him who builds a town with blood and prepares a city by iniquity.
Cross References
Joshua 24:27And he said to all the people, “Lo, this stone shall be to you as a testimony, which has heard all the words of the Lord that he has spoken to you, lest perhaps, afterward, you might choose to deny it, and to lie to the Lord your God.”
Luke 19:40And he said to them, “I tell you, that if these will keep silent, the stones themselves will cry out.”
James 5:3Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be a testimony against you, and it will eat away at your flesh like fire. You have stored up wrath for yourselves unto the last days.
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 2:6-15
Judgment Predicted; Judgment of the King of Babylon. ( b. c. 600.) 5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! 7 Shall… Read the whole commentary →