Habakkuk 1:2 Themes and Topics

And my soul is deeply distressed. But you, LORD, how long do I wait? Verse Concepts

How long? LORD, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? Verse Concepts

LORD, how long will you just watch? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from these young lions. Verse Concepts

How long, LORD, will you be angry? Forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? Verse Concepts

LORD God of the Heavenly Armies, when will your smoldering anger toward your people's prayers cease? Verse Concepts

How long, LORD, will you hide yourself? Forever? Will your anger continuously burn like fire? Verse Concepts

Please return, LORD! When will it be? Comfort your servants. Verse Concepts

How long will the wicked, LORD, how long will the wicked continue to triumph? Verse Concepts

"How long, LORD, must I cry out for help, but you won't listen? I'm crying out to you, "Violence!' but you aren't providing deliverance. Verse Concepts

And the angel of the LORD replied, "LORD of the Heavenly Armies, how long will it be until you show mercy to Jerusalem and to the cities of Judah, with whom you have been angry for these past seventy years?" Verse Concepts

"How long, LORD, must I cry out for help, but you won't listen? I'm crying out to you, "Violence!' but you aren't providing deliverance. Verse Concepts

The tents of robbers are at rest, and those who provoke God are secure, that is, those who carry their god in their pocket. Verse Concepts

"Why do the wicked live to reach old age and increase in power and wealth, too? Verse Concepts

For I suffer all day long and I am punished every morning. Verse Concepts

I have seen it all during my pointless life: both a righteous person who dies while he is righteous, and a wicked person who lives to an old age, while remaining wicked. Verse Concepts

Everyone shares the same experience: a single event affects the righteous, the wicked, the good, the clean, the unclean, whoever sacrifices, and whoever does not sacrifice. As it is with the good person, so also it is with the sinner; as it is with someone who takes an oath, so also it is with someone who fears taking an oath. Verse Concepts

You are righteous, LORD, even when I bring a complaint to you. But I want to discuss justice with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper, while all who are treacherous are at ease? Verse Concepts

"Yet you keep saying, "The LORD isn't being consistent with his standards.' Pay attention, you house of Israel: Is my behavior really inconsistent with my standards? Isn't it your behavior that isn't just? Verse Concepts

"These last fellows worked only one hour, but you paid them the same as us, and we've been working all day, enduring the scorching heat!' Verse Concepts

What can we say, then? God is not unrighteous, is he? Of course not! Verse Concepts

And they were offended by him. Verse Concepts

"Who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? Verse Concepts

So pay attention! I'm going to make you just as obstinate and unyielding as they are. I'm making you harder than flint like diamond! So you are not to fear them or be intimidated by how they look at you, since they're a rebellious group."

Then the Spirit lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly with an angry attitude as the hand of the LORD rested on me. Verse Concepts

"How long, LORD, must I cry out for help, but you won't listen? I'm crying out to you, "Violence!' but you aren't providing deliverance. Why are you forcing me to look at iniquity and to stare at wickedness? Social havoc and oppression are all around me; there are legal conflicts, and disputes abound.

This is the builder, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon, isn't it? His sisters are here with us, aren't they?" And they were offended by him. Jesus had been telling them, "A prophet is without honor only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own home."

He added, "I tell all of you with certainty, a prophet is not accepted in his hometown. Verse Concepts

since Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. Verse Concepts