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10 You have made plans to destroy many people.
    This has made your own houses ashamed of you.
    Because of it, you will lose your lives.
11 The stones of the walls will cry out against you.
    Even the wooden boards that support the roof will agree that you are wrong.

12 “How terrible it will be for the nation that kills people to build a city.
    How terrible for that nation that wrongs others to start a town.

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10 You have plotted the ruin(A) of many peoples,
    shaming(B) your own house and forfeiting your life.
11 The stones(C) 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(D)
    and establishes a town by injustice!

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