 | Thomas Manton - Bible - 1840 - 478 pages
...silver, the moth-eaten clothes, shall be produced ; that is, by the recognition of our consciences. So, " The stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it" (Habak. ii. 11) ; that is, the materials of the house built up by oppression shall come as joint witnesses.... | |
 | John James - 1840 - 946 pages
...hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. '• Woe to him that bui.deth a J^ITnaU?" T^^ ,= town with blood, and sta- lonians,or in any individual.... | |
 | Samuel Davies, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1841 - 594 pages
...the ungodly. The dust under the feet of their ministers shall witness against them : Matt. x. H. " The stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it." Hab. ii. 11. The rust of their gold and silver shall be a witness against them, and shall eat their... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1947 - 190 pages
...the Lord answered me and said, 'Write the vision, make it plain that he that runneth may read ; for the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it : woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity ; woe to him that... | |
 | Prince Society (Boston, Mass.) - United States - 1911 - 544 pages
...must be taxed to' make up this very Sum ! This verily, if this be true, is enough to make the Stone cry out of the Wall, and the Beam out of the Timber to speak. - [17] AND yet, perhaps, all this is not above one Half the Damage done — since the D arrived... | |
 | 1880 - 532 pages
...we were to hold our peace, and refuse to praise her among women, the very stones of the Church would cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber would answer it. If what the woman did, who poured forth a box of precious ointment upon the Head of... | |
 | Moses Gaster - Literary Collections - 1971 - 1270 pages
...even the stones and the beams of his house witness against him ; [as it is said : " For the stones shall cry out of the wall and the beam out of the timber shall answer it" (Habak. ii. II)].8 » VII. 2. 2 Cf. Macarius, 10-11. ' Macarius, 12-16. 1 56 (603) 13. When a man dies... | |
 | John Smith - English language - 314 pages
...leaven, fait, trees, feed, &c. Befides many hyperbolical Metaphors j as, in Hab. 2. n. The ftone ftall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber ftiall anfwcr. Lam. 1.4. The waies of Sion lament or mourn, &c. So, Mat. 3. ii. Chriftisfaidto baptize... | |
 | John Duncan Martin Derrett - Religion - 1977 - 266 pages
...illicit gain (bofe'a) is highly suspect (Ps. 10.3)— sins against his own soul (cf. Jer. 22.13-19), and 'the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it'. The Qumran folk recognized an allusion to 'leprosy' (IQpHab 10.1-5). Hab. 2.9-11 is known to lie behind... | |
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For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. 
