Habakkuk 1:13

Habakkuk presses his dilemma: how can a God too pure to look on evil tolerate the wicked Babylonians swallowing those more righteous than themselves? This is the book's sharpest theological question about God's justice.

Cross-references · 26

• Ps 5:4–5For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.
• Ps 34:15–16The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
• Jer 12:1–2Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
• Hab 1:3–4Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.
• Prov 31:8–9Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
• 1 Pet 1:15–16But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,
• 2 Sam 4:11How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!”
• Ps 10:15Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
• Ps 50:3Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
• Isa 21:2A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
• Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
• Acts 3:13–15The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.
• Ps 56:1–2For the choirmaster. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack.
• Ps 37:12–15The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
• Ps 11:4–7The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.
• Isa 33:1Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.
• Ps 35:22O LORD, You have seen it; be not silent. O Lord, be not far from me.
• Ps 73:3For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Ps 10:1–2Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
• 1 Kgs 2:32The LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he put to the sword Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
• Esth 4:14For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
• Ps 50:21You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
• Ps 37:32–33Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,
• Ps 83:1A song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God.
• Isa 64:12After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
• Job 15:15If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

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