Habakkuk 1:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³ Why do you force me to look at injustice? Why do you tolerate   wrongdoing? Oppression and violence are right in front of me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict escalates.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Why do You show me iniquity and wrong, and Yourself look upon or cause me to see perverseness and trouble? For destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention arises.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.

Common English Bible

³ Why do you show me injustice and look at anguish so that devastation and violence are before me? There is strife, and conflict abounds.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Why have you revealed to me iniquity and hardship, to see plunder and injustice opposite me? And there has been judgment, but the opposition is more powerful.

Habakkuk 1:3 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun.  Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see oppression of the poor  and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation,  because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to me, you hard-hearted, far removed from justice:

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the  Lord of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men  of Judah, the plant he delighted in. He expected justice but saw injustice; he expected righteousness but heard cries of despair.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man who incites dispute and conflict in all the land. I did not lend or borrow, yet everyone curses me.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come out of the womb to see only struggle and sorrow, to end my life in shame?

Jeremiah 20:8

For whenever I speak, I cry out, I proclaim, ‘Violence and destruction! ’ So the word of the  Lord has become my constant disgrace and derision.

Ezekiel 2:6

‘But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them and do not be afraid of their words,  even though briars and thorns are beside you and you live among scorpions.  Don’t be afraid of their words or discouraged by the look on their faces, for they are a rebellious house.

Matthew 10:16

‘Look, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

2 Peter 2:8

(for as that righteous man lived among them day by day, his righteous soul was tormented by the lawless deeds he saw and heard  ) #– #