Habakkuk 1:13

New International Version

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

Cross References

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more—when wicked men have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed—should I not now demand his blood from your hand and rid the earth of you!”

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will repay him for the blood he shed, because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army—were better men and more upright than he.

Esther 4:14

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”

Job 15:15

If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

Job 21:7

Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

Job 24:23

He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.

Psalm 10:15

Break the arm of the wicked man; call the evildoer to account for his wickedness that would not otherwise be found out.

Psalm 18:26

to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.

Psalm 25:3

No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame, but shame will come on those who are treacherous without cause.

Psalm 35:17

How long, Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.

Psalm 35:22

Lord, you have seen this; do not be silent. Do not be far from me, Lord.

Psalm 35:25

Do not let them think, “Aha, just what we wanted!” or say, “We have swallowed him up.”

Psalm 50:21

When you did these things and I kept silent, you thought I was exactly like you. But I now arraign you and set my accusations before you.

Psalm 50:3

Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages.

Psalm 73:3

For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalm 83:1

O God, do not remain silent; do not turn a deaf ear, do not stand aloof, O God.

Isaiah 21:2

A dire vision has been shown to me: The traitor betrays, the looter takes loot. Elam, attack! Media, lay siege! I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.

Isaiah 24:16

From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I waste away, I waste away! Woe to me! The treacherous betray! With treachery the treacherous betray!”

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to you, destroyer, you who have not been destroyed! Woe to you, betrayer, you who have not been betrayed! When you stop destroying, you will be destroyed; when you stop betraying, you will be betrayed.

Isaiah 64:12

After all this, Lord, will you hold yourself back? Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?

Lamentations 3:36

to deprive them of justice— would not the Lord see such things?

Habakkuk 1:14

You have made people like the fish in the sea, like the sea creatures that have no ruler.

Zechariah 8:17

do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord.

Acts 2:23

This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.

Deuteronomy 23:15

If a slave has taken refuge with you, do not hand them over to their master.