Habakkuk 1:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Look around [you, Habakkuk, replied the Lord] among the nations and see! And be astonished! Astounded! For I am putting into effect a work in your days [such] that you would not believe it if it were told you. [Acts 13:40, 41.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Behold ye among the nations, and look, and wonder marvellously; for I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.

Common English Bible

⁵ Look among the nations and watch! Be astonished and stare because something is happening in your days that you wouldn’t believe even if told.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Gaze among the nations, and see. Admire, and be astounded. For a work has been done in your days, which no one will believe when it is told.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Behold ye among the nations, and see: wonder, and be astonished: for a work is done in your days, which no man will believe when it shall be told.

Habakkuk 1:5 Cross References

Isaiah 29:14

therefore, behold, I will again do marvelous things with this people, wonderful and marvelous; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hid.”

Isaiah 29:9

Stupefy yourselves and be in a stupor, blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink!

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not heed any of his words.”

Lamentations 4:12

The kings of the earth did not believe, or any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

Daniel 9:12

He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has not been done the like of what has been done against Jerusalem.

Habakkuk 3:2

O Lord, I have heard the report of thee, and thy work, O Lord, do I fear. In the midst of the years renew it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.

Zephaniah 1:2

“I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 4:27

And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.