Habakkuk 1
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The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
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.
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

the law.

Psalm 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Psalm 119:126 It is time for you, LORD, to work: for they have made void your law.

Mark 7:9 And he said to them, Full well you reject the commandment of God, …

Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yes, we establish …

for.

1 Kings 21:13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: …

Job 21:7 Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, are mighty in power?

Psalm 22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed …

Psalm 58:1,2 Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, …

Psalm 59:2,4 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men…

Psalm 82:1-5 God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods…

Psalm 94:3,20,21 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph…

Isaiah 1:21-23 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; …

Isaiah 59:2-8,13-15 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and …

Jeremiah 5:27-29 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore …

Jeremiah 12:1,6 Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk …

Jeremiah 26:8,21-23 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all …

Jeremiah 37:14-16 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. …

Jeremiah 38:4-6 Therefore the princes said to the king, We beseech you, let this …

Ezekiel 22:25-30 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the middle thereof, like …

Hosea 10:4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus …

Amos 5:7,12 You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth…

Micah 2:1,2 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when …

Micah 3:1-3 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of …

Micah 7:2-4 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright …

Matthew 23:34-36 Why, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and …

Matthew 26:59-66 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false …

Matthew 27:1,2,25,26 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the …

Acts 7:52,59 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they …

Acts 23:12-14 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound …

James 2:6,7 But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and …

wrong. or, wrested.

Exodus 23:2,6 You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak …

Deuteronomy 16:19 You shall not wrest judgment; you shall not respect persons, neither …

Ezekiel 9:9 Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah …

Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

for.

Habakkuk 1:6 For, see, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, …

Habakkuk 2:5-13 Yes also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither …

Deuteronomy 28:51,52 And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your …

Jeremiah 4:7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles …

Jeremiah 5:15-17 See, I will bring a nation on you from far, O house of Israel, said …

Jeremiah 25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, said …

their faces shall sup up as the east. or, the supping up of their faces, as, etc. or, their faces shall look toward the east. Heb. the opposition of their faces shall be toward the east.

Isaiah 27:8 In measure, when it shoots forth, you will debate with it: he stays …

Jeremiah 4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem…

Ezekiel 17:10 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly …

Ezekiel 19:12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, …

Hosea 13:15 Though he be fruitful among his brothers, an east wind shall come, …

they shall gather.

Habakkuk 2:5 Yes also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither …

Genesis 41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until …

Judges 7:12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the …

Job 29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

Psalm 139:18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when …

Jeremiah 15:8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas…

Jeremiah 34:22 Behold, I will command, said the LORD, and cause them to return to …

Hosea 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of …

Romans 9:27 Esaias also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children …

And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

thou not.

Deuteronomy 33:27 The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting …

Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the …

Psalm 93:2 Your throne is established of old: you are from everlasting.

Isaiah 40:28 Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, …

Isaiah 57:15 For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose …

Lamentations 5:19 You, O LORD, remain for ever; your throne from generation to generation.

Micah 5:2 But you, Bethlehem Ephratah, though you be little among the thousands …

1 Timothy 1:17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, …

1 Timothy 6:16 Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can …

Hebrews 1:10-12 And, You, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the …

Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

Revelation 1:8,11 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, said the Lord, …

mine.

Isaiah 43:15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.

Isaiah 49:7 Thus said the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to …

Acts 3:14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer …

we.

Habakkuk 3:2 O LORD, I have heard your speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive …

Psalm 118:17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.

Isaiah 27:6-9 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall …

Jeremiah 4:27 For thus has the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet …

Jeremiah 5:18 Nevertheless in those days, said the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.

Jeremiah 30:11 For I am with you, said the LORD, to save you: though I make a full …

Jeremiah 33:24-26 Consider you not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families …

Jeremiah 46:28 Fear you not, O Jacob my servant, said the LORD: for I am with you…

Ezekiel 37:11-14 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of …

Amos 9:8,9 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I …

thou hast ordained.

2 Kings 19:25 Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times …

Psalm 17:13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from …

Isaiah 10:5-7 O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my …

Isaiah 37:26 Have you not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, …

Jeremiah 25:9-14 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, said …

Ezekiel 30:25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms …

mighty God. Heb. Rock.

Deuteronomy 32:4,30,31 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: …

1 Samuel 2:2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside you: neither …

Psalm 18:1 I will love you, O LORD, my strength.

established. Heb. founded. for.

Isaiah 27:9,10 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this …

Jeremiah 30:11 For I am with you, said the LORD, to save you: though I make a full …

Jeremiah 31:18-20 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised …

Jeremiah 46:28 Fear you not, O Jacob my servant, said the LORD: for I am with you…

Hebrews 12:5,6 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to …

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

of.

Job 15:15 Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not …

Psalm 5:4,5 For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall …

Psalm 11:4-7 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his …

Psalm 34:15,16 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry…

1 Peter 1:15,16 But as he which has called you is holy, so be you holy in all manner …

iniquity. or, grievance. wherefore.

Psalm 10:1,2,15 Why stand you afar off, O LORD? why hide you yourself in times of trouble…

Psalm 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Jeremiah 12:1,2 Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk …

deal.

Isaiah 21:2 A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer deals …

Isaiah 33:1 Woe to you that spoil, and you were not spoiled; and deal treacherously…

holdest.

Esther 4:14 For if you altogether hold your peace at this time, then shall there …

Psalm 35:22 This you have seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

Psalm 50:3,21 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour …

Psalm 83:1 Keep not you silence, O God: hold not your peace, and be not still, O God.

Proverbs 31:8,9 Open your mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed …

Isaiah 64:12 Will you refrain yourself for these things, O LORD? will you hold …

the wicked.

Habakkuk 1:3,4 Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for …

2 Samuel 4:11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his …

1 Kings 2:32 And the LORD shall return his blood on his own head, who fell on …

Psalm 37:12-15,32,33 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes on him with his teeth…

Psalm 56:1,2 Be merciful to me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting …

Acts 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge …

Acts 3:13-15 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, …

And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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