Habakkuk 1

1The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.Cross-references: Isa 22:1 · Nah 1:1

2Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?Cross-references: Ps 13:1 · Ps 22:1 · Ps 74:9 · Ps 94:3 · Jer 14:9 · Lam 3:8 · +1 more

3Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.Cross-references: Ps 12:1 · Ps 55:9 · Ps 73:3 · Ps 120:5 · Eccl 4:1 · Eccl 5:8 · +6 more

4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.Cross-references: Ex 23:2 · Ex 23:6 · Deut 16:19 · 1Ki 21:13 · Job 21:7 · Ps 11:3 · +37 more

5“Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days which you will not believe though it is told you.Cross-references: Deut 4:27 · Isa 28:21 · Isa 29:9 · Isa 29:14 · Jer 5:12 · Jer 9:25 · +8 more

6For, behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation who march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · 2Ki 24:2 · 2Chr 36:6 · 2Chr 36:17 · Isa 23:13 · Isa 39:6 · +7 more

7They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.Cross-references: Deut 5:19 · Deut 5:27 · Isa 18:7 · Jer 39:5 · Jer 52:9 · Jer 52:25

8Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · Isa 5:26 · Jer 4:13 · Jer 5:6 · Lam 4:19 · Ezek 17:3 · +5 more

9All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.Cross-references: Gen 41:49 · Deut 28:51 · Judg 7:12 · Job 29:18 · Ps 139:18 · Isa 27:8 · +13 more

10Yes, they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build up an earthen ramp and take it.Cross-references: 2Ki 24:12 · 2Ki 25:6 · 2Chr 36:6 · 2Chr 36:10 · Isa 14:16 · Jer 32:24 · +2 more

11Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.”Cross-references: Jer 4:11 · Dan 4:30 · Dan 5:3 · Dan 5:20

12Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.Cross-references: Deut 32:4 · Deut 32:30 · Deut 33:27 · 1Sam 2:2 · 2Ki 19:25 · Ps 17:13 · +33 more

13You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,Cross-references: 2Sam 4:11 · 1Ki 2:32 · Esth 4:14 · Job 15:15 · Ps 5:4 · Ps 10:1 · +20 more

14and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?Cross-references: Prov 6:7

15He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.Cross-references: Ps 10:9 · Isa 19:8 · Jer 16:16 · Jer 50:11 · Lam 2:15 · Ezek 25:6 · +8 more

16Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good.Cross-references: Deut 8:17 · Isa 10:13 · Isa 37:24 · Ezek 28:3 · Ezek 29:3 · Dan 4:30 · +2 more

17Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?Cross-references: Isa 14:6 · Isa 14:16 · Isa 19:8 · Jer 25:9 · Jer 46:1 · Jer 52:1 · +4 more