Habakkuk 1:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ Therefore the law is slacked, and judgement doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore judgement goeth forth perverted.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Therefore the law is slackened and justice and a righteous sentence never go forth, for the [hostility of the] wicked surrounds the [uncompromisingly] righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Therefore the law is slacked, and justice doth never go forth; for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore justice goeth forth perverted.

Common English Bible

⁴ The Instruction is ineffective. Justice does not endure because the wicked surround the righteous. Justice becomes warped.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Because of this, the law has been torn apart, and judgment does not persevere to its conclusion. For the impious prevail against the just. Because of this, a perverse judgment is issued.

Habakkuk 1:4 Références croisées

1 Kings 21:13

And the two men, sons of Belial, came in and sat before him: and the men of Belial bare witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.

Job 21:7

Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

Psalm 11:3

If the foundations be destroyed, What can the righteous do?

Psalm 119:126

It is time for the LORD to work; For they have made void thy law.

Psalm 22:12

Many bulls have compassed me: Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

Psalm 22:16

For dogs have compassed me: The assembly of evil-doers have enclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

Psalm 59:2

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, And save me from the bloodthirsty men.

Psalm 59:4

They run and prepare themselves without my fault: Awake thou to help me, and behold.

Psalm 94:3

LORD, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph?

Exodus 23:2

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest judgement:

Exodus 23:6

Thou shalt not wrest the judgement of thy poor in his cause.

Isaiah 5:20

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 59:12

For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

Jeremiah 12:6

For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; even they have cried aloud after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

Jeremiah 26:8

And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

Jeremiah 8:7

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of the LORD.

Ezekiel 9:9

Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of wresting of judgement: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

Hosea 10:4

They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgement springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Amos 5:12

For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right.

Amos 5:7

Ye who turn judgement to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth;

Mark 7:9

And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them which shewed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;

Acts 7:59

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon the Lord, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Romans 3:31

Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.

Deuteronomy 16:19

Thou shalt not wrest judgement; thou shalt not respect persons: neither shalt thou take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.