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11 The very stones will cry out from the wall,
    and the plaster[a] will respond from the woodwork.

12 ‘Alas for you who build a town by bloodshed,
    and found a city on iniquity!’
13 Is it not from the Lord of hosts
    that peoples labour only to feed the flames,
    and nations weary themselves for nothing?

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:11 Or beam

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