Habakkuk 2:11
New International Version
The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.

New Living Translation
The very stones in the walls cry out against you, and the beams in the ceilings echo the complaint.

English Standard Version
For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond.

Berean Standard Bible
For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork.

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

New King James Version
For the stone will cry out from the wall, And the beam from the timbers will answer it.

New American Standard Bible
“For the stone will cry out from the wall, And the rafter will answer it from the framework.

NASB 1995
“Surely the stone will cry out from the wall, And the rafter will answer it from the framework.

NASB 1977
“Surely the stone will cry out from the wall, And the rafter will answer it from the framework.

Legacy Standard Bible
Surely the stone will cry out from the wall, And the rafter will answer it from the framework.

Amplified Bible
“For the stone will cry out from the wall [to accuse you—built in sin!] And the rafter will answer it out of the woodwork.

Christian Standard Bible
For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will answer them from the woodwork.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will answer them from the woodwork.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because the stone from the wall bellows and the nail from the wood answers

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beetle out of the timber shall speak.

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

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.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A stone in the wall will cry out. A beam in the roof will answer it.

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

International Standard Version
Indeed, the stone will cry out from the wall and the rafter will respond from the woodwork."

JPS Tanakh 1917
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, And the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

Literal Standard Version
For a stone cries out from the wall, | And a beam from the wood answers it.

Majority Standard Bible
For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork.

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

NET Bible
For the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer back.

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

New Heart English Bible
For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

World English Bible
For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

Young's Literal Translation
For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it.

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Context
Woe to the Chaldeans
10You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life. 11For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork. 12Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!…

Cross References
Luke 19:40
"I tell you," He answered, "if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out."

Joshua 24:27
And Joshua said to all the people, "You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny your God."

Lamentations 2:18
The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.


Treasury of Scripture

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

the stone.

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

Joshua 24:27
And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.

Job 31:38-40
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; …

beam.

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Habakkuk 2
1. Unto Habakkuk, waiting for an answer, is shown that he must wait by faith.
5. The judgment upon the Chaldean for unsatiableness,
9. for covetousness,
12. for cruelty,
15. for drunkenness,
18. and for idolatry.














(11) The stone shall cry out.--Every stone in those giant walls reared by the enforced labour of captives cries aloud to accuse the Babylonian. Every spar out of the woodwork attests the charge.

Verse 11. - Even inanimate things shall raise their voice to denounce the Chaldeans' wickedness. The stone shall cry out of the wall. A proverbial expression to denote the horror with which their cruelty and oppression were regarded; it is particularly appropriate here, as these crimes had been perpetrated in connection with the buildings in which they prided them. selves, and which were raised by the enforced labour of miserable captives and adorned with the fruits of fraud and pillage. Compare another application of the expression in Luke 19:40. Jerome quotes Cicero, 'Orat. pro Marcello,' 10, "Parietes, medius fidius, ut mihi videntur, hujus curiae tibi gratias agere gestiunt, quod brevi tempore futura sit ilia auctoritas in his majorum suorum et suis sedibus" (comp. Eurip., 'Hippol.,' 418, Τέρεμνά τ οἴκων μή ποτε φθογγὴν ἀφῇ: Ovid, 'Metam.,' 2:696, "Tutus eas: lapis iste prius tua furta loquetur"). Wordsworth sees a literal fulfilment of these words in the appalling circumstance at Belshazzar's feast, when a hand wrote on the palace wall the doom of Babylon (Daniel 5.). And the beam out of the timber shall answer it. "The tie beam out of the timber work shall" take up the refrain, and "answer" the stone from the wall. The Hebrew word (Kaphis) rendered "beam" is an ἄπαξ λεγόμενον. It is explained as above by St. Jerome, being referred to a verb meaning "to bind." Thus Symmachus and Theodotion translate it by σύνδεσμος. Henderson and others think it means "a half brick," and Aquila renders it by μᾶζα, "something baked." But we have no evidence that the Babylonians in their sumptuous edifices interlaced timber and half bricks (see Pusey, p. 419, note 23). The LXX. gives, κάνθαρος ἐκ ξύλου, a beetle, a worm, from the wood. Hence, referring to Christ on the cross, St. Ambrose ('Orat. de Obit. Theod.,' 46) writes, "Adoravit ilium qui pependit in ligno, illum inquam qui sicut scarabaeus clamavit, ut persecutoribus suis peccata condonaret." St. Cyril argues that tie beams were called κάνθαροι from their clinging to and supporting wall or roof. Some reason for this supposition is gained by the fact that the word canterius, or cantherius, is used in Latin in the sense of "rafter."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

the stones
אֶ֖בֶן (’e·ḇen)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 68: A stone

will cry out
תִּזְעָ֑ק (tiz·‘āq)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2199: To shriek, to announce, convene publicly

from the wall,
מִקִּ֣יר (miq·qîr)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7023: A wall

and the rafters
וְכָפִ֖יס (wə·ḵā·p̄îs)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3714: A rafter, girder

will echo it
יַעֲנֶֽנָּה׃ (ya·‘ă·nen·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond

from the woodwork.
מֵעֵ֥ץ (mê·‘êṣ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6086: Tree, trees, wood


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