11 For the (A)stone will cry out from the wall,
And the rafter will answer it from the [a]framework.

12 “Woe to him who (B)builds a city with bloodshed,
And founds a town with [b]violence!
13 Is it not indeed from the Lord of armies
That peoples (C)labor merely for fire,
And nations become weary for nothing?

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:11 Lit wood
  2. Habakkuk 2:12 Lit injustice

11 The stones(A) of the wall will cry out,
    and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.

12 “Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed(B)
    and establishes a town by injustice!
13 Has not the Lord Almighty determined
    that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire,(C)
    that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?(D)

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