Habakkuk 1:4

English Standard Version 2016

So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.

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, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

Ezekiel 9:9

Then he said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. 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 turn aside the needy in the gate.

Hosea 10:4

They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment 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 shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.

Exodus 23:6

“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.

Exodus 23:2

You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,

Romans 3:31

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

Acts 7:59

And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,

Mark 7:9

And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish 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. Awake, come to meet me, and see!

Psalm 59:2

deliver me from those who work evil, and save me from bloodthirsty men.

Amos 5:7

O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!

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 brothers and the house of your father, 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 encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet—

Psalm 11:3

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

1 Kings 21:13

And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men 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 with stones.

Psalm 22:12

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

Isaiah 59:12

For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the Lord.