Habakkuk 1:13

New American Bible - revised edition

Your eyes are too pure to look upon wickedness, and the sight of evil you cannot endure. Why, then, do you gaze on the faithless in silence while the wicked devour those more just than themselves?

Cross References

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more now, when wicked men have slain an innocent man in bed at home, must I require his blood from you and purge you from the land!”

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will bring blood upon his own head, because he struck down two men better and more just than himself, and slew them with the sword without my father David’s knowledge: Abner, son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa, son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

Job 15:15

If in his holy ones God places no confidence, and if the heavens are not without blame in his sight,

Job 21:7

Why do the wicked keep on living, grow old, become mighty in power?

Job 24:23

he gives safety and support, and his eyes are on their ways.

Psalm 10:15

Break the arm of the wicked and depraved; make them account for their crimes; let none of them survive.

Psalm 18:26

Toward the faithful you are faithful; to the honest man you are honest;

Psalm 25:3

No one is disgraced who waits for you, but only those who are treacherous without cause.

Psalm 35:17

O Lord, how long will you look on? Restore my soul from their destruction, my very life from lions!

Psalm 35:22

You see this, Lord; do not be silent; Lord, do not withdraw from me.

Psalm 35:25

Do not let them say in their hearts, “Aha! Our soul!” Do not let them say, “We have devoured that one!”

Psalm 50:21

When you do these things should I be silent? Do you think that I am like you? I accuse you, I lay out the matter before your eyes.

Psalm 50:3

Our God comes and will not be silent! Devouring fire precedes him, it rages strongly around him.

Psalm 73:3

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

Psalm 83:1

A song; a psalm of Asaph.

Isaiah 21:2

A harsh vision has been announced to me: “The traitor betrays, the despoiler spoils. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; put an end to all its groaning!”

Isaiah 24:16

From the end of the earth we hear songs: “Splendor to the Just One!” But I said, “I am wasted, wasted away. Woe is me! The traitors betray; with treachery have the traitors betrayed!

Isaiah 33:1

Ah! You destroyer never destroyed, betrayer never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; when you have stopped betraying, you will be betrayed.

Lamentations 3:36

Or subverts a person’s lawsuit— does the Lord not see?

Habakkuk 1:14

You have made mortals like the fish in the sea, like creeping things without a leader.

Zechariah 8:17

Let none of you plot evil against another in your heart, nor love a false oath. For all these things I hate—oracle of the Lord. Three Oracles: Judah and the Nations.

Acts 2:23

This man, delivered up by the set plan and foreknowledge of God, you killed, using lawless men to crucify him.

Deuteronomy 23:15

Since the Lord, your God, journeys along in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to give your enemies over to you, your camp must be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent in your midst and turn away from you. Various Precepts.