Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Behold ye {scoffers (LXX/NT)}, and look, and wonder marvelously. For I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.
New American Standard Bible
Be astonished!
Because I am doing
You would not believe if
King James Version
Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
Holman Bible
be utterly astounded!
For something is taking place in your days
that you will not believe
when you hear about it.
International Standard Version
"Look out at the nations and pay attention! Be astounded! Be really astounded! Because something is happening in your lifetime that you won't believe, even if it were described down to the smallest detail.
American Standard Version
Behold ye among the nations, and look, and wonder marvellously; for I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.
Amplified
[The Lord replied,] “Look among the nations! See!
Be astonished! Wonder!
For I am doing something in your days—
You would not believe it if you were told.
Bible in Basic English
See among the nations, and take note, and be full of wonder: for in your days I am doing a work in which you will have no belief, even if news of it is given to you.
Darby Translation
See ye among the nations, and behold, and wonder marvellously; for I work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be declared to you.
Julia Smith Translation
See ye among the nations, and look, and wonder; ye shall wonder: for the working a work in your days ye will not believe if it shall be recounted.
King James 2000
Behold you among the nations, and regard, and wonder and be astonished: for I will work a work in your days, which you will not believe, though it be told you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Look among the nations and see; be astonished and astounded. For a work [is about to] be done in your days that you will not believe if it is told.
Modern King James verseion
Look among the nations, and behold and wonder marvelously; for I will work a work in your days which you will not believe, not even if it is declared to you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold among the Heathen, and look well: wonder at it, and be abashed: For I will do a thing in your time, which though it be told you, ye shall not believe.
NET Bible
"Look at the nations and pay attention! You will be shocked and amazed! For I will do something in your lifetime that you will not believe even though you are forewarned.
New Heart English Bible
"Look, you scoffers, watch, and wonder marvelously, and perish; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.
The Emphasized Bible
Behold ye, among the nations, and look around, Yea stand stock still - stare, - for, a work, is being wrought in your days, ye will not believe, when it is recounted.
Webster
Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.
World English Bible
"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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Look ye on nations, and behold and marvel greatly. For a work He is working in your days, Ye do not believe though it is declared.
Interlinear
Ra'ah
Yowm
Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 1:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Answer To Habakkuk
4 Therefore the law is slacked, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked man surrounds the righteous man, therefore justice goes forth perverted. 5 Behold ye {scoffers (LXX/NT)}, and look, and wonder marvelously. For I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you. 6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 29:14
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder. {I will destroy the wisdom of the wise (LXX/NT)}, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.
Ezekiel 12:22-28
Son of man, what is this proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?
Deuteronomy 4:27
And LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations where LORD shall lead you away.
Isaiah 28:21-22
For LORD will rise up as in mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
Isaiah 29:9
Tarry ye and wonder, take your pleasure and be blind. They are drunken, but not with wine. They stagger, but not with strong drink.
Jeremiah 5:12-13
They have denied LORD, and said, It is not he. Neither shall evil come upon us, nor shall we see sword nor famine.
Jeremiah 9:25-26
Behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not gi
Jeremiah 25:14-29
For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
Lamentations 4:12
The kings of the earth did not believe, nor all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:12
And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil, for under the whole heaven has not been done as has been done upon Jerusalem.
Zephaniah 1:2
I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground, says LORD.
Acts 6:13-14
And they put forward FALSE witnesses who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous sayings against the holy place, and the law.
Acts 13:40-41
Watch therefore, lest that which is spoken in the prophets should come upon you: