Habakkuk 1:4

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:13

And bringing forward two men, sons of the devil, they caused them to sit opposite him. And they, acting indeed like diabolical men, spoke testimony against him before the multitude: "Naboth has blasphemed God and king." For this reason, they led him away, beyond the city, and they put him to death by stoning.

Job 21:7

Why then do the impious live, having been lifted up and strengthened with riches?

Psalm 11:3

They have been speaking emptiness, each one to his neighbor; they have been speaking with deceitful lips and a duplicitous heart.

Psalm 59:2

when he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal, and Joab turned back and struck Idumea, in the valley of the salt pits, twelve thousand men.

Psalm 59:4

You have moved the earth, and you have disturbed it. Heal its breaches, for it has been moved.

Psalm 94:3

For the Lord is a great God and a great King over all gods.

Exodus 23:2

You shall not follow the crowd in doing evil. Neither shall you go astray in judgment, by agreeing with the majority opinion, apart from the truth.

Exodus 23:6

You shall not deviate in judgment of the poor.

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to you who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light, and light for darkness; who exchange bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 59:12

For our iniquities have been multiplied in your sight, and our sins have answered us. For our wickedness is with us, and we have acknowledged our iniquities:

Jeremiah 12:1

Certainly, O Lord, you are just. But if I may contend with you, while still speaking what is just to you: Why does the way of the impious prosper? Why is it well with all those who transgress and act unfairly?

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even these have fought against you. And they have cried out after you with loud voice: 'You should not believe them, when they speak good things to you.' "

Jeremiah 26:8

And when Jeremiah had completed speaking all that the Lord had instructed him to speak to all the people, then the priests, and the prophets, and all the people apprehended him, saying: "You shall be put to death."

Jeremiah 8:7

The hawk in the heavens has known her time. The turtledove, and the swallow, and the stork have kept the time of their arrival. But my people have not known the judgment of the Lord.

Ezekiel 9:9

And he said to me: "The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of Judah, is vast and exceedingly great, and the land has been filled with blood, and the city has been filled with what is abhorrent. For they have said: 'The Lord has forsaken the earth,' and, 'The Lord does not see.'

Hosea 10:4

You speak words about a useless vision, and you will strike a deal. And judgment will spring up like bitterness in the furrows of the field.

Amos 5:12

For I know your many wicked deeds and the strength of your sins, you enemies of the just, accepting bribes, and depriving the poor at the gate.

Amos 5:7

You turn judgment into wormwood, and you abandon justice on earth.

Mark 7:9

And he said to them: "You effectively nullify the precept of God, so that you may observe your own tradition.

Acts 7:52

Which of the Prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they killed those who foretold the advent of the Just One. And you have now become the betrayers and murderers of him.

Acts 7:59

Then, having been brought to his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his murder.

Romans 3:31

Are we then destroying the law through faith? Let it not be so! Instead, we are making the law stand.

Deuteronomy 16:19

and not so as to show favoritism to either side. You shall not accept a person's reputation, nor gifts. For gifts blind the eyes of the wise and alter the words of the just.