Habakkuk 2:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

Habakkuk 2:11 —

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Luke 19:40
And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
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.
James 5:3-4
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. …
Job 31:38-40
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; …
Genesis 4:10
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-14)

The prophet having had orders to write the vision, and the people to wait for the accomplishment of it, the vision itself follows; and it is, as divers other prophecies we have met with, the burden of Babylon and Babylon’s king, the same that was said to pass over and offend, Hab. 1:11. It reads the doom, some think, of Nebuchadnezzar, who was principally active in the destruction of Jerusalem, or…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. stone ... cry out--personification. The very stones of thy palace built by rapine shall testify against thee (Lu 19:40). the beam out of the timber--the crossbeam or main rafter connecting the timbers in the walls. shall answer it--namely, the stone. The stone shall begin and the crossbeam continue the cry against thy rapine.