Verse 4

Habakkuk 1:4

English Revised Version

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4 Behold ye among the nations, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I work a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.

Original Language Text

hebrew

עַל כֵּן֙ תָּפ֣וּג תּוֹרָ֔ה וְ/לֹֽא יֵצֵ֥א לָ/נֶ֖צַח מִשְׁפָּ֑ט כִּ֤י רָשָׁע֙ מַכְתִּ֣יר אֶת הַ/צַּדִּ֔יק עַל כֵּ֛ן יֵצֵ֥א מִשְׁפָּ֖ט מְעֻקָּֽל

English Translation

Therefore, the law will be abolished, and justice will not go forth forever, for the wicked surrounds the righteous; therefore, justice will come out perverted.

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Chapter 1 Context

1 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt... Focus ↗

2 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for spoiling and violence are before me:... Focus ↗

3 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about th... Focus ↗

4 Behold ye among the nations, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I work a work in your days, whi...

5 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation; which march through the breadth of... Focus ↗

6 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. Focus ↗

7 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves; and their... Focus ↗

8 They come all of them for violence; their faces are set eagerly as the east wind; and they gather ca... Focus ↗

9 Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a derision unto him: he derideth every strong hold; for h... Focus ↗

10 Then shall he sweep by as a wind, and shall pass over, and be guilty: even he whose might is his god... Focus ↗

11 Art not thou from everlasting, O LORD my God (Elohim), mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou... Focus ↗

12 Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore... Focus ↗

13 and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? Focus ↗

14 He taketh up all of them with the angle, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them in his drag... Focus ↗

15 Therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; because by them his portio... Focus ↗

16 Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to slay the nations continually? Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Habakkuk
Chapter: Chapter 1 (16 verses)
Version: English Revised Version

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