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10 Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful [is] thy soul.

11 For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it.

12 Wo [to] him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity.

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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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