Habakkuk 1:13

English Standard Version 2016

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

Cross References

Psalm 50:3

Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest.

Psalm 10:15

Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none.

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”

Acts 2:23

this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

Isaiah 64:12

Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord? Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?

Isaiah 33:1

Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you.

Isaiah 21:2

A stern vision is told to me; the traitor betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.

Psalm 83:1

O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God!

Psalm 73:3

For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalm 50:21

These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

Psalm 35:22

You have seen, O Lord; be not silent! O Lord, be not far from me!

Job 15:15

Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;

Esther 4:14

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 house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

1 Kings 2:32

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 himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

Job 21:7

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

Psalm 18:26

with the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.

Psalm 25:3

Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.

Psalm 35:17

How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions!

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, our heart’s desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”

Isaiah 24:16

From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, “I waste away, I waste away. Woe is me! For the traitors have betrayed, with betrayal the traitors have betrayed.”

Lamentations 3:36

to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve.

Habakkuk 1:14

You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.

Zechariah 8:17

do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 23:15

“You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you.

Job 24:23

He gives them security, and they are supported, and his eyes are upon their ways.