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10 You have devised shame for your house
    by cutting off many peoples;
    you have forfeited your life.
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!’

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  1. Habakkuk 2:11 Or beam

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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