Habakkuk 1:13

Habakkuk's Second Complaint

¹² Art not, thou, from of old, O Yahweh, my God, my Holy One? Thou diest not! O Yahweh, to judgment, hast thou appointed him, and, O Rock, to correction, hast thou devoted him: ¹³ Thou whose eyes are too pure to look with approval on wrong, to respect oppression, canst not endure, - Wherefore, shouldst thou respect the treacherous? Be silent, when the lawless, swalloweth up, one more righteous than he? ¹⁴ So wouldst thou have made Men, like the fishes of the sea, - like the creeping thing that hath no ruler over it:

Deal Treacherously

Keep Silent

Deal Treacherously

Sin

Psalm 34:15-16

The eyes of Yahweh, are towards the righteous, And, his ears, towards their cry for help:

Psalm 35:22

Thou hast seen, O Yahweh, do not keep silence! O My Lord! be not far from me:

Psalm 50:21

These things, hast thou done, and I have kept silence, Thou thoughtest that I should really be like thyself, I will convict thee, yea I will set thine offences in order before thine eyes.

Jeremiah 12:1-2

Righteous, art thou O Yahweh, when I present my pleading unto thee, - Yet, concerning the things that are right, let me speak with thee, - Wherefore hath, the way of the lawless, prospered? Wherefore have all, utter traitors, been at ease?

Acts 3:13-15

The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, - the God of our fathers, hath glorified his servant Jesus: - whom, ye, indeed, delivered up and denied to Pilate's, face when he had adjudged to release him;

2 Samuel 4:11

how much more, when, lawless men, have slain a righteous person, in his own house, upon his bed? -- Now, therefore, must I not require his blood at your hands, and so consume you, out of the earth?

1 Kings 2:32

thus will Yahweh bring back his blood upon his own head, in that he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing it, - even Abner son of Ner, general of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, general of the army of Judah;

Esther 4:14

But, if thou, do indeed hold thy peace, at this time, respite and deliverance, will be appointed for the Jews, from another place, but, thou, and thy father's house, will perish, - and who knoweth whether, for a time such as this, thou hast attained unto the royal estate?

Job 15:15

Lo! in his holy ones, he putteth not confidence, and, the heavens, are not pure in his eyes:

Psalm 5:4-5

For, not a GOD finding pleasure in lawlessness, art thou, and wrong can be no guest of thine:

Psalm 10:1-2

Wherefore, O Yahweh, shouldst thou stand afar off? Wherefore hide thyself, in times of destitution?

Psalm 10:15

Shatter thou the arm of the lawless one, And, as for the wrongful, wilt thou not enquire for his lawlessness - wilt thou not find it ?

Psalm 11:4-7

Yahweh, is in his holy temple As for Yahweh, in the heavens, is his throne, His eyes, behold - His eyelashes test the sons of men.

Psalm 37:12-15

Plotting is the lawless one, against the just, and gnashing upon him with his teeth.

Psalm 37:32-33

The lawless man, lieth in wait, for the just, and seeketh to put him to death:

Psalm 50:3

Let our God come, and let him not keep silence! A fire - before him, shall devour, And, around him, hath it become exceeding tempestuous:

Psalm 56:1-2

Show me favour, O God, For weak man hath panted for me, All the day, a fighter oppresseth me:

Psalm 73:3

For I was envious of the boasters, At the prosperity of the lawless, used I to look.

Psalm 83:1

O God, Do not keep quiet, Do not hold thy peace, Neither be thou still, O GOD!

Proverbs 31:8-9

Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all the children of the departed.

Isaiah 21:2

So hath, a grievous vision, been told me: - the deceiver, is deceiving. And the spoiler, is spoiling, Go up, O Elam Besiege O Media, All the sighing she hath caused, have I made to cease.

Isaiah 33:1

Alas! thou plunderer when, thou, hadst not been plundered, And thou traitor when they had not betrayed thee: When thou hast ceased plundering, thou shalt be plundered, When thou hast left off betraying, they shall betray thee.

Isaiah 64:12

In view of these things, wilt thou restrain thyself. O Yahweh? Wilt thou hold thy peace and humble us so very greatly?

Habakkuk 1:3-4

Wherefore shouldst thou let me see iniquity, and, wrong, shouldst let me behold, and, force and violence, be straight before me, - and there should have ever been someone who, contention and strife, would uphold?

Acts 2:23

The same, by the marked out counsel and foreknowledge of God given up, through the hands of lawless men, suspending, ye slew,

1 Peter 1:15-16

But, according as he that hath called you is holy, do, ye yourselves, also become, holy in all manner of behaviour, -