Habakkuk 1:13

Modern English Version

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil, and You cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously, and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours the man who is more righteous than he?

Cross References

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more so, when guilty men have slain an innocent man in his own house on his own bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand and wipe you from the earth?”

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord shall return his blood upon his own head, for he attacked two men more righteous and better than he —Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah—and killed them with the sword when my father David was unaware.

Esther 4:14

For if you remain silent at this time, protection and deliverance for the Jews will be ordained from some other place, but you and your father’s house shall be destroyed. And who knows if you may have attained royal position for such a time as this?”

Job 15:15

Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in His sight.

Job 21:7

Why do the wicked live and become old; yes, become mighty in power?

Job 24:23

He gives them security, and they rely on it; yet His eyes are on their ways.

Psalm 10:15

Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man; seek out his wickedness until You find none.

Psalm 18:26

with the pure You will show Yourself pure; and with the crooked You will show Yourself shrewd.

Psalm 25:3

Let no one who waits on You be ashamed; let them be ashamed who transgress without cause.

Psalm 35:17

Lord, how long will You look on? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions!

Psalm 35:22

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

Psalm 35:25

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

Psalm 50:21

These things have you done, and I kept silent; you thought that I was indeed like you; but I will rebuke you and make a case before your eyes.

Psalm 50:3

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent; a devouring fire shall precede Him, and it shall be very tempestuous all around Him.

Psalm 73:3

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

Psalm 83:1

Do not keep silent, O God; do not hold Your peace or be still, O God.

Isaiah 21:2

A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam. Lay siege, O Media. All her sighing I have made to cease.

Isaiah 24:16

From the uttermost part of the earth we hear songs, that is, “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I say, Woe to me! Woe to me! Alas for me! The treacherous deal treacherously; indeed, the treacherous deal very treacherously.

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to you, O destroyer, though you were not destroyed, and he who is treacherous, though others did not deal treacherously with you! When you cease destroying, you shall be destroyed; and when you finish dealing treacherously, others shall deal treacherously with you.

Isaiah 64:12

Will You refrain Yourself from these things, O  Lord? Will You hold Your peace and afflict us beyond measure?

Lamentations 3:36

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

Habakkuk 1:14

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

Zechariah 8:17

Let none of you consider evil plans in your heart against your neighbor, and do not love false oaths, for I hate all these things, says the Lord.

Acts 2:23

You have taken Him, who was handed over to you by the ordained counsel and foreknowledge of God, and by lawless hands have crucified and killed Him,

Deuteronomy 23:15

You must not deliver back to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you.