Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Habakkuk 1:3 in context
Habakkuk 1:1–6
1
The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2
LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
3
Selected verse
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
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.
6
For, 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.
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