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 has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can’t live with you.
• Ps 34:15–16Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
• Jer 12:1–2You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
• Hab 1:3–4Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
• Prov 31:8–9Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
• 1 Pet 1:15–16but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
• 2 Sam 4:11How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?”
• Ps 10:15Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
• Ps 50:3Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
• Isa 21:2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
• Acts 2:23him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
• Acts 3:13–15The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
• Ps 56:1–2For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Silent Dove in Distant Lands.” A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
• Ps 37:12–15The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
• Ps 11:4–7Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
• Isa 33:1Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed; and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.
• Ps 35:22You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.
• Ps 73:3For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Ps 10:1–2Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
• 1 Kgs 2:32Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
• Esth 4:14For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
• Ps 50:21You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
• Ps 37:32–33The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
• Ps 83:1A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
• Isa 64:12Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh? Will you keep silent, and punish us very severely?
• Job 15:15Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

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