Habakkuk 1:13

The Scriptures 2009

You, whose eyes are too clean to see evil, You are not able to look on wrong. Why do You look on those who act treacherously – keep silent when the wrong devours one more righteous than he?

Cross References

2 Samuel 4:11

“How much more, when wrong men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood at your hand and remove you from the earth?”

1 Kings 2:32

“Thus יהוה shall return his blood on his head, because he had fallen on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, while my father Dawiḏ did not know it: Aḇnĕr son of Nĕr, commander of the army of Yisra’ĕl, and Amasa son of Yether, commander of the army of Yehuḏah.

Esther 4:14

“For if you keep entirely silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall arise for the Yehuḏim from another place, while you and your father’s house perish. And who knows whether you have come to the reign for such a time as this?”

Job 15:15

Look, He puts no trust in His set-apart ones, and the heavens are not clean in His eyes,

Job 21:7

Why do the wrong live, become old, and become mighty in power?

Job 24:23

He gives him safety, and he leans on it; yet His eyes are on their ways.

Psalm 10:15

Shin Break the arm of the wrong one and the evil one; Search out his wrongness that would not be found out.

Psalm 18:26

With the clean You show Yourself clean; And with the crooked You show Yourself twisted.

Psalm 25:3

Gimel Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those who are treacherous without cause be ashamed.

Psalm 35:17

יהוה, how long would You look on? Rescue my being from their destructions, My only life from the lions.

Psalm 35:22

This You have seen, O יהוה; Do not be silent. O יהוה, do not be far from me.

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, our desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”

Psalm 50:21

“You have done this, and I kept silent; You have thought that I was altogether like you – I rebuke you, and set it in order before your eyes.

Psalm 50:3

Our Elohim comes, and is not silent – A fire consumes before Him, And it shall be very stormy all around Him.

Psalm 73:3

For I was envious of the boasters, When I saw the peace of the wrong-doers.

Psalm 83:1

O Elohim, do not remain silent! Do not be speechless, And do not be still, O Ěl!

Isaiah 21:2

A distressing vision is revealed to me: the treacherous betrays, and the ravager ravages. Go up, O Ěylam! Besiege, O Media! All the groaning I bring to an end.

Isaiah 24:16

From the ends of the earth we shall hear songs, “Splendour to the Righteous One!” But I say, “I waste away, I waste away! Woe to me! The treacherous betray, with treachery the treacherous betray.”

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to you ravager, while you have not been ravaged, and you treacherous, while they have not betrayed you! When you have ceased ravaging, you shall be ravaged. And when you stop betraying, they shall betray you.

Isaiah 64:12

In view of all this, would You restrain Yourself, O יהוה? Would You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?

Lamentations 3:36

Or wrong a man in his cause – This יהוה does not approve.

Habakkuk 1:14

And would You make men like fish of the sea, like creeping creatures that have no ruler over them?

Zechariah 8:17

And do not plot evil in your heart against another, and do not love a false oath. For all these I hate,’ declares יהוה.”

Acts 2:23

this One, given up by the set purpose and foreknowledge of Elohim, you have impaled and put to death through the hands of lawless men –

Deuteronomy 23:15

“You do not hand over to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you.