Habakkuk 1:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Why do you let me see iniquity? why do you simply gaze at evil? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife and discord.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that take place under the sun: the tears of the victims with none to comfort them! From the hand of their oppressors comes violence, and there is none to comfort them!

Ecclesiastes 5:8

But profitable for a land in such circumstances is a king concerned about cultivation.

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to me, you fainthearted, far from the victory of justice:

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, the people of Judah, his cherished plant; He waited for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry!

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe to me, my mother, that you gave me birth! a man of strife and contention to all the land! I neither borrow nor lend, yet everyone curses me.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come forth from the womb, to see sorrow and pain, to end my days in shame?

Jeremiah 20:8

Whenever I speak, I must cry out, violence and outrage I proclaim; The word of the Lord has brought me reproach and derision all day long.

Ezekiel 2:6

But as for you, son of man, do not fear them or their words. Do not fear, even though there are briers or thorns and you sit among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or be terrified by their looks for they are a rebellious house.

Matthew 10:16

“Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves.

2 Peter 2:8

(for day after day that righteous man living among them was tormented in his righteous soul at the lawless deeds that he saw and heard),