Habakkuk 1:4

Because of widespread wickedness, the law has become powerless and justice is perverted, with the wicked overwhelming the righteous. It diagnoses the breakdown of a just society when sin goes unrestrained.

Cross-references · 40

• Job 21:7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
• Isa 1:21–23How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
• Ps 94:20–21Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
• Ps 119:126It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
• Jer 12:1Righteous 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?
• Ezek 9:9Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
• Isa 59:13–15In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
• Isa 5:20Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
• Exod 23:6Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
• Deut 16:19Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
• Exod 23:2Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
• Hos 10:4They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
• Ezek 22:25–30There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
• Amos 5:12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
• Ps 58:1–2Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
• Rom 3:31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
• Jer 5:27–29As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
• Jer 37:14–16Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
• Jer 26:21–23And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
• Acts 7:52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
• Jas 2:6–7But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
• Ps 94:3LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
• Ps 59:4They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
• Ps 59:2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
• Matt 27:25–26Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
• Matt 27:1–2When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
• Matt 23:34–36Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
• Matt 26:59–66Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
• Mic 3:1–3And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
• Mic 2:1–2Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Mic 7:2–4The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
• Mark 7:9And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
• Acts 7:59And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
• Acts 23:12–14And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
• Amos 5:7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
• Isa 59:2–8But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
• Ps 11:3If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
• 1 Kgs 21:13And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
• Ps 22:16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
• Ps 82:1–5God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

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