Habakkuk 1:4

Habakkuk's Complaint

³ Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up. ⁴ Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted. ⁵ "Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.

Righteous Man

No

Psalm 119:126

It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.

Ezekiel 9:9

Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see.

Job 21:7

"Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Psalm 58:1-2

Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

Isaiah 1:21-23

How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Jeremiah 12:1

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

Exodus 23:2

"You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;

Exodus 23:6

"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

1 Kings 21:13

The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king!" Then they carried him out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.

Psalm 11:3

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Psalm 22:16

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Psalm 59:2

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.

Psalm 59:4

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

Psalm 82:1-5

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

Psalm 94:3

Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

Psalm 94:20-21

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

Isaiah 59:2-8

but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

Isaiah 59:13-15

transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 5:27-29

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: don't believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

Jeremiah 26:8

It happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, You shall surely die.

Jeremiah 26:21-23

and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt:

Jeremiah 37:14-16

Then Jeremiah said, It is false; I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he didn't listen to him; so Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

Jeremiah 38:4-6

Then the princes said to the king, "Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt."

Ezekiel 22:25-30

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in its midst.

Hosea 10:4

They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Amos 5:7

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

Amos 5:12

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins -- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

Micah 2:1-2

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 3:1-3

I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?

Micah 7:2-4

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

Matthew 23:34-36

Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

Matthew 26:59-66

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

Matthew 27:1-2

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Matthew 27:25-26

All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!"

Mark 7:9

He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

Acts 7:59

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

Acts 23:12-14

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Romans 3:31

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

James 2:6-7

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?