Habakkuk 1:3

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause [me] to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence [are] before me: and there are [that] raise up strife and contention.

Why dost thou shew {H7200} me iniquity {H205}, and cause me to behold {H5027} grievance {H5999}? for spoiling {H7701} and violence {H2555} are before me: and there are that raise up {H5375} strife {H7379} and contention {H4066}.

Why do you make me see wrongdoing, why do you permit oppression? Pillage and cruelty confront me, so that strife and discord prevail.

Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.

Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.

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Cross-References

  • Psalms 55:9 (6 votes)

    ¶ Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

  • Psalms 55:11 (6 votes)

    Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

  • Jeremiah 20:8 (4 votes)

    For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

  • Ecclesiastes 5:8 (4 votes)

    If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for [he that is] higher than the highest regardeth; and [there be] higher than they.

  • Jeremiah 9:2 (4 votes)

    Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they [be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

  • Jeremiah 9:6 (4 votes)

    Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

  • Micah 7:1 (4 votes)

    ¶ Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: [there is] no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.