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 thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
• Ps 34:15–16The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
• Jer 12:1–2Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
• Hab 1:3–4Why 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.
• Prov 31:8–9Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
• 1 Pet 1:15–16But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
• 2 Sam 4:11How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
• Ps 10:15Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
• Ps 50:3Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
• Isa 21:2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
• Acts 2:23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
• Acts 3:13–15The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
• Ps 56:1–2Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
• Ps 37:12–15The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
• Ps 11:4–7The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
• Isa 33:1Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
• Ps 35:22This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
• Ps 73:3For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Ps 10:1–2Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
• 1 Kgs 2:32And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
• Esth 4:14For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
• Ps 50:21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
• Ps 37:32–33The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
• Ps 83:1Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
• Isa 64:12Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
• Job 15:15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

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