Habakkuk 1:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ So the law becomes slack, and justice never prevails. The wicked surround the righteous; therefore judgment comes forth perverted.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Therefore the law is slackened and justice and a righteous sentence never go forth, for the [hostility of the] wicked surrounds the [uncompromisingly] righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Therefore the law is slacked, and justice doth never go forth; for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore justice goeth forth perverted.

Common English Bible

⁴ The Instruction is ineffective. Justice does not endure because the wicked surround the righteous. Justice becomes warped.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Because of this, the law has been torn apart, and judgment does not persevere to its conclusion. For the impious prevail against the just. Because of this, a perverse judgment is issued.

Habakkuk 1:4 Cross References

Psalm 119:126

It is time for the Lord to act, for your law has been broken.

Job 21:7

Why do the wicked live on, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

Jeremiah 12:1

You will be in the right, O Lord, when I lay charges against you, but let me put my case to you. Why does the way of the guilty prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

Ezekiel 9:9

He said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city full of perversity, for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe and push aside the needy in the gate.

Hosea 10:4

They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so litigation springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Deuteronomy 16:19

You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

Exodus 23:6

“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in their lawsuits.

Exodus 23:2

You shall not follow a majority in wrongdoing; when you bear witness in a lawsuit, you shall not side with the majority so as to pervert justice,

Romans 3:31

Do we then overthrow the law through this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

Acts 7:59

While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.

Mark 7:9

Then he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!

Psalm 94:3

O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?

Psalm 59:4

for no fault of mine, they run and make ready. Rouse yourself, come to my help and see!

Psalm 59:2

Deliver me from those who work evil; from the bloodthirsty, save me.

Amos 5:7

Ah, you who turn justice to wormwood and bring righteousness to the ground!

Jeremiah 26:8

And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die!

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your kinsfolk and your own family, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you.

Psalm 22:16

For dogs are all around me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they bound my hands and feet.

Psalm 11:3

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

1 Kings 21:13

The two scoundrels came in and sat opposite him, and the scoundrels brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.

Psalm 22:12

Many bulls encircle me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me;

Isaiah 59:12

For our transgressions before you are many, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions indeed are with us, and we know our iniquities:

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the stork in the heavens knows its times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane observe the time of their coming, but my people do not know the ordinance of the Lord.