Aren’t you from everlasting, LORD my God,† my Holy One? We will not die. LORD, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Habakkuk 1:12 in context
Habakkuk 1:9–15
9
All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.
10
Yes, 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.
11
Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.”
12
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Aren’t you from everlasting, LORD my God,† my Holy One? We will not die. LORD, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
13
You 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,
14
and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?
15
He 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.
Source notes
Notes from World English Bible Updated
- The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
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