Habakkuk 1:3

Translations

Modern

Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.

Traditional

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

Literal

Why do you cause me to me see iniquity and to look upon trouble? Destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.

Latin

Quare ostendisti mihi iniquitatem et laborem, videre prædam et injustitiam contra me? Et factum est judicium, et contradictio potentior.

Original

Hebrew

English

Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.

Notes

Habakkuk 1:3

In Habakkuk’s time, destruction and violence were widespread in Judean society (see Habakkuk Book Introduction, “Setting”).

Habakkuk 1:2–4

To Habakkuk, God seemed unconcerned about the evil spread throughout society in Judah (Habakkuk 1:3–4). God also seemed silent when Habakkuk complained about this evil (1:2).

Theme notes and profiles

Dealing with Conflict Human Confusion and God’s Purpose

Events

Prophecies of Habakkukc. 607 BC

Related verses

Psalm 55:9–11
O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
Jeremiah 9:2–6
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
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Jeremiah 20:8
For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.
Micah 7:1–4
Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.
Psalm 120:5–6
Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
Ezekiel 2:6
But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their presence, though they are a rebellious house.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
Matthew 10:16
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Psalm 73:3–9
For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
2 Peter 2:8
…(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—
Psalm 12:1–2
For the choirmaster. According to Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Help, O LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.

Glossary

Book of Habakkuk

Topics

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