Habakkuk 1:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ Why do you make me see wrongdoing and look at trouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.

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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

Jeremiah 20:8

For whenever I speak, I must cry out; I must shout, “Violence and destruction!” For the word of the Lord has become for me a reproach and derision all day long.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and right, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

2 Peter 2:8

(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by their lawless deeds that he saw and heard),

Matthew 10:16

“I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Ezekiel 2:6

And you, O mortal, do not be afraid of them, and do not be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns surround you and you live among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words, and do not be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow and spend my days in shame?

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his cherished garden; he expected justice but saw bloodshed; righteousness but heard a cry!

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from deliverance: