Habakkuk 1:3

The Scriptures 1998

Why do You show me wickedness, and cause me to see perversity? For ruin and violence are before me. And there is strife, and contention arises.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Then I looked again at all the oppression that is done under the sun: And see! The tears of the oppressed, but they have no comforter; and power on the side of their oppressors, but they have no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor, and denial of right-ruling and righteousness in a province, do not be astonished at the matter. For a higher than the high is guarding, and there are higher ones over them.

Isaiah 46:12

“Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness:

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of יהוה  of hosts is the house of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and a man of contention to all the earth! I have neither lent for interest, nor have men lent to me for interest. All of them are reviling me.

Jeremiah 20:18

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

Jeremiah 20:8

For when I speak, I cry out, proclaiming violence and ruin. Because the word of יהוה  was made to me a reproach and a derision daily.

Ezekiel 2:6

“And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though thistles and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or discouraged by their looks, for they are a rebellious house.

Matthew 10:16

“See, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

2 Peter 2:8

(for day after day that righteous man, dwelling among them, tortured his righteous being by seeing and hearing their lawless works),