Thematic Bible
Habakkuk 1:1 (show verse)
This is the message Jehovah revealed to Habakkuk the prophet:
Habakkuk 1:2 (show verse)
How long, O Jehovah (YHWH), will I call for help and you do not hear? I cry out to you, save me from violence! And yet you do not save.
Habakkuk 1:3 (show verse)
Why do you make me see wickedness and immorality? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife exists and contention arises.
Habakkuk 1:4 (show verse)
The law is paralyzed and justice is never delivered. The wicked surround the righteous and deliver perverted justice.
Habakkuk 1:5 (show verse)
Look among the nations, watch, and be amazed. Though you are told you will not believe the work I do today.
Habakkuk 1:6 (show verse)
Behold, I bring the Chaldeans to power, that bitter and impetuous nation. They march through the expanse of the earth to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
Habakkuk 1:7 (show verse)
They are feared and dreaded. Their justice and dignity are of their own being.
Habakkuk 1:8 (show verse)
Their horses are swifter than leopards. They are fiercer than the evening wolves. Their horsemen proudly press on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle in a hurry to eat.
Habakkuk 1:9 (show verse)
They all come for violence. Their crowds look straight ahead and gather prisoners like the sand.
Habakkuk 1:10 (show verse)
They scoff at kings, and princes are derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build earthen ramps and capture them.
Habakkuk 1:11 (show verse)
They will sweep by like a wind and continue on. They will be held guilty for might is their god.
Habakkuk 1:12 (show verse)
You are from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One, You are eternal. O Jehovah, you have appointed them (the Chaldean) to execute judgment. You, O Rock, have established them for correction.
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Habakkuk 1:13 (show verse)
Your eyes are too pure to look at evil. You cannot look at perversity. Why do you look at treacherous persons and not act? Why do you keep quiet when the wicked destroy the man who is more righteous?
Habakkuk 1:14 (show verse)
Why do you make men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler over them?
Habakkuk 1:15 (show verse)
He brings them all up with the hook. He gathers them away in his net. He gladly gathers them and rejoices.
Habakkuk 1:16 (show verse)
He offers sacrifices and burns incense to his fishing net. For it is through this their catch is great and the food is plentiful.
Habakkuk 1:17 (show verse)
Will they keep on emptying their nets and keep on destroying nations without mercy?