How much more, then, when wicked men have killed a righteous man on his bed in his own house! And now shall I not require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”
Habakkuk 1:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Your eyes are too pure to behold evil, and you cannot look on wrongdoing; why do you look on the treacherous and are silent when the wicked swallow those more righteous than they? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and can not look [inactively] upon injustice. Why then do You look upon the plunderer? Why are you silent when the wicked one destroys him who is more righteous than [the Chaldean oppressor] is? American Standard Version (1901) Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he; Common English Bible Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you are unable to look at disaster. Why would you look at the treacherous or keep silent when the wicked swallows one who is more righteous? Catholic Public Domain Version Your eyes are pure, you do not behold evil, and you cannot look towards iniquity. Why do you look upon the agents of iniquity, and remain silent, while the impious is devouring one who is more just than himself? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself? |
How much more, then, when wicked men have killed a righteous man on his bed in his own house! And now shall I not require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”
The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than he: Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this.”
God puts no trust even in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;
He gives them security, and they are supported; his eyes are upon their ways.
Break the arm of the wicked and evildoers; seek out their wickedness until you find none.
with the pure you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you show yourself shrewd.
Do not let those who wait for you be put to shame; let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my life from the lions!
Do not let them say to themselves, “Aha, we have our heart’s desire.” Do not let them say, “We have swallowed you up.”
These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one just like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.
Our God comes and does not keep silent; before him is a devouring fire and a mighty tempest all around him.
A stern vision is told to me; the betrayer betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.
From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, “I pine away; I pine away. Woe is me! For the treacherous deal treacherously; the treacherous deal very treacherously.”
Woe to the destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed; you treacherous one, with whom no one has dealt treacherously! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have stopped dealing treacherously, you will be dealt with treacherously.
After all this, will you restrain yourself, O Lord? Will you keep silent and punish us so severely?
You have made people like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.
do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these are things that I hate, says the Lord.”
this man, handed over to you according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law.
“You shall not return to their owners slaves who have escaped to you from their owners.