Habakkuk 1:3-13
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d Why do you make me see iniquity,
and why do you idly look at wrong?
Destruction c and violence are before me;
strife and contention arise.
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e So the law is paralyzed,
and justice never goes forth.
f For the wicked surround the righteous;
so justice goes forth perverted.
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g "Look among the nations, and see;
wonder and be astounded.
h For I am doing a work in your days
that you would not believe if told.
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For behold, i I am raising up the Chaldeans,
that bitter and hasty nation,
j who march through the breadth of the earth,
k to seize dwellings not their own.
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They are dreaded and fearsome;
l their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
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m Their horses are swifter than leopards,
more fierce than n the evening wolves;
their horsemen press proudly on.
Their horsemen come from afar;
o they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
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They all come p for violence,
all their faces forward.
They gather captives r like sand.
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At kings they scoff,
and at rulers they laugh.
s They laugh at every fortress,
for t they pile up earth and take it.
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Then they sweep by like the wind and go on,
u guilty men, v whose own might is their god!"
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Are you not w from everlasting,
O Lord my God, my Holy One?
x We shall not die.
O Lord, y you have ordained them as a judgment,
and you, O z Rock, have established them for reproof.
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You who are a of purer eyes than to see evil
and cannot look at wrong,
b why do you idly look at traitors
and c remain silent when the wicked swallows up
the man more righteous than he?
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Jeremiah 9:2 - 6
Oh that I had in the desert a travelers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.
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Habakkuk 1:2
O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you "Violence!" and you will not save?
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Micah 7:3
Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
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Job 21:7
Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
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Acts 13:41
"'Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish; for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.'"
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Isaiah 28:21
For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim; as in the Valley of Gibeon he will be roused; to do his deed - strange is his deed! and to work his work - alien is his work!
Isaiah 29:14
Therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.
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Jeremiah 5:15
Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the Lord. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
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Habakkuk 2:5
"Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples."
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Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own - for how long? - and loads himself with pledges!
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Habakkuk 1:10 - 11
At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh. They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it.
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Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he comes up like clouds; his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles - woe to us, for we are ruined!
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Jeremiah 5:6
Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them down; a wolf from the desert shall devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.
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Deuteronomy 28:49
The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand.
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Habakkuk 2:17
The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.
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Joshua 11:4
And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.
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Nahum 3:12
All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs - if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.
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Ezekiel 4:2
And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.
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Hosea 13:16
Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
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Habakkuk 1:7
They are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
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Deuteronomy 33:27
The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy.
Psalms 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Psalms 93:2
Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting.
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Malachi 3:6
For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
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Isaiah 10:5 - 7
Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!
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Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
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Psalms 5:5
The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.
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Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
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Psalms 35:22
You have seen, O Lord ; be not silent! O Lord, be not far from me!
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