Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment does never go forth: for the wicked does compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceeds.
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Exodus 23:2You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to decline after many to shift judgment:
Deuteronomy 16:19You shall not shift judgment; you shall not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Job 21:7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Psalms 22:16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Psalms 59:2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
Psalms 82:1God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods.
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 →