Habakkuk 1:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Your eyes are too pure to behold evil, and you cannot look on wrongdoing; why do you look on the treacherous and are silent when the wicked swallow those more righteous than they?

Cross References

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more, then, when wicked men have killed a righteous man on his bed in his own house! And now shall I not require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than he: Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

Esther 4:14

For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this.”

Job 15:15

God puts no trust even in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;

Job 21:7

Why do the wicked live on, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

Job 24:23

He gives them security, and they are supported; his eyes are upon their ways.

Psalm 10:15

Break the arm of the wicked and evildoers; seek out their wickedness until you find none.

Psalm 18:26

with the pure you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you show yourself shrewd.

Psalm 25:3

Do not let those who wait for you be put to shame; let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.

Psalm 35:17

How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my life from the lions!

Psalm 35:22

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

Psalm 35:25

Do not let them say to themselves, “Aha, we have our heart’s desire.” Do not let them say, “We have swallowed you up.”

Psalm 50:21

These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one just like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

Psalm 50:3

Our God comes and does not keep silent; before him is a devouring fire and a mighty tempest all around him.

Psalm 73:3

For I was envious of the arrogant; I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalm 83:1

O God, do not keep silent; do not hold your peace or be still, O God!

Isaiah 21:2

A stern vision is told to me; the betrayer betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.

Isaiah 24:16

From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, “I pine away; I pine away. Woe is me! For the treacherous deal treacherously; the treacherous deal very treacherously.”

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to the destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed; you treacherous one, with whom no one has dealt treacherously! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have stopped dealing treacherously, you will be dealt with treacherously.

Isaiah 64:12

After all this, will you restrain yourself, O Lord? Will you keep silent and punish us so severely?

Lamentations 3:36

when one’s case is subverted— does the Lord not see it?

Habakkuk 1:14

You have made people like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.

Zechariah 8:17

do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these are things that I hate, says the Lord.”

Acts 2:23

this man, handed over to you according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law.

Deuteronomy 23:15

“You shall not return to their owners slaves who have escaped to you from their owners.