Thou hast planned shame for thy house;

Thou hast cut off[403] many people,

While forfeiting thine own life.[404]

For the stone shall cry out from the wall,

And the lath[405] from the timber answer it.

THIRD TAUNT-SONG (ii. 12–14).

Woe unto him that builds a city in blood,[406]

And stablishes a town in iniquity![407]

Lo, is it not from Jehovah of hosts,

That the nations shall toil for smoke,[408]