Verse 11
Habakkuk 2:11 gives the reason for the sentence announced in Habakkuk 2:10. Jehovah cannot overlook the wrongdoing, for the very stones and beams in the house built with blood cry out against the violence practiced in procuring them.
Shall answer it Shall re-echo the cry sent up by the stones.
Woe upon the building of cities with the blood and property of strangers, Habakkuk 2:12-14.
The third woe is a continuation of the second; the latter refers to the building of the empire in general, the former to the extensive building enterprises throughout the land. “The prophet sees the city in process of extension, bands of captives, Jews and Gentiles, bleeding and dying under the blows of their drivers, and he realizes the fraudful dealings by which the treasures expended in the erection of enormous fortifications have been amassed.”
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