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11 For a stone will cry out[a] from a wall,
and wooden beams will answer.

12 Oy to him who builds a city by bloodshed,
and establishes a town with injustice!
13 Behold, is it not from Adonai-Tzva’ot
that peoples toil to fuel a fire,
and nations exhaust themselves for emptiness?

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:11 cf. Luke 19:40.