🙏WEB · Habakkuk 1:2
What does Habakkuk 1:2 mean?
"Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?"
— Habakkuk 1:2 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
“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.
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