He answered them, *I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.*
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with shalom: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.
For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Avraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Avraham from these stones.
When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,
and turning the cities of Sedom and `Amorah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;