Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is weak, and justice is never rendered; for the wicked surround the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

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Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

In Context

3Why do you make me look upon wickedness and behold trouble? Destruction and violence are before my eyes, and fighting and quarrelling.

5Look at the nations, look well, be shocked and amazed. For I am about to do a work in your days; you will not believe it when it is told.

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Cross References

Psalms 22:16For dogs are round about me, a band of knaves encircles me, gnawing my hands and my feet.

Psalms 59:2Save me from those who do wrong, save me from the bloodthirsty.

Psalms 82:1God has taken his stand in the divine assembly: in the midst of the gods he holds judgment.

Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 1:2-5

Habakkuk It is a very foolish fancy of some of the Jewish rabbin that this prophet was the son of the Shunamite woman that was at first miraculously given, and afterwards raised to life, by Elisha ( 2 Kings iv. ), as they say also that the prophet Jonah was the son of the widow of Zarephath, which Elijah raised to life. It is a more probable conjecture of their modern chronologers that he lived and prophesied in the reign of king Manasseh, when wickedness abounded, and destruction was hastening on, destruction by… Read the whole commentary →

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