Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 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 has become helpless, and justice does not always go forth. For the wicked entraps the righteous; therefore justice goes forth, being perverted. 5 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. 6 For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, the bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land to possess homes not their own.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 29:14
therefore, behold, I will go on doing among this people, a wonder, even a wonder. For the wisdom of their wise ones shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hidden.
Ezekiel 12:22-28
Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days will go on and every vision shall fail?
Deuteronomy 4:27
And Jehovah shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the nations where Jehovah shall drive you.
Isaiah 28:21-22
For Jehovah shall rise up as in Mount Perazim; He shall be angry as in the valley of Gibeon, so that He may do His work, His strange work; and bring to pass His act, His strange act.
Isaiah 29:9
Stand still and wonder! Blind your eyes and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
Jeremiah 5:12-13
They have lied against Jehovah and said, It is not He; neither shall evil come on us; nor shall we see sword nor famine.
Jeremiah 9:25-26
Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will punish all the circumcised with the uncircumcised;
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, Come and let us plot schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.
Jeremiah 25:14-29
For many nations and great kings shall lay service on them also. And I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
Lamentations 4:12
The kings of the earth, and all the people of the world, would not have believed that the foe and the hater would go into Jerusalem's gates.
Daniel 9:12
And He has confirmed His Words which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil. For under all the heavens it has not been done as it has been done to Jerusalem.
Zephaniah 1:2
I will completely snatch away all from on the face of the ground, says Jehovah.
Acts 6:13-14
And they set up false witnesses, who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law.
Acts 13:40-41
Therefore beware lest that come on you which is spoken of in the Prophets: