Habakkuk 2:11

For the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer back. ¹ 

The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.

"Surely the stone will cry out from the wall, And the rafter will answer it from the framework.

The very stones in the walls of your houses cry out against you, and the beams in the ceilings echo the complaint.

The bricks of your house will speak up and accuse you. The woodwork will step forward with evidence.

For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.

The very stones will cry out from the wall, and the plaster will respond from the woodwork.

For the stone will cry out from the wall, And the beam from the timbers will answer it.

For the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer back. ¹ 

¹ sn The house mentioned in vv. 9-10 represents the Babylonian empire, which became great through imperialism. Here the materials of this “house” (the stones in the walls, the wooden rafters) are personified as witnesses who testify that the occupants have built the house through wealth stolen from others.