Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
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Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
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Habakkuk 1:1
The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
Habakkuk 1:2
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
Job 19:7
“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
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Habakkuk 1:12
Aren’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.
Habakkuk 1:13
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,
Numbers 23:21
He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
Jeremiah 12:1
You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to plead a case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
Habakkuk 1:17
Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
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Habakkuk 1:5
“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.
Habakkuk 1:6
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.
Habakkuk 1:9
All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.
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Psalms 120:7
I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.
Psalms 140:2
those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.
Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
Proverbs 17:19
He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
Proverbs 18:6
A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.
Proverbs 26:21
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
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Ecclesiastes 3:16
Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
Psalms 94:20
Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
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Jeremiah 20:8
For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.
Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.
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Hosea 13:1
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty through Baal, he died.
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Genesis 6:11
The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Amos 3:10
“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
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Psalms 55:9
Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
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Psalms 55:11
Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.
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Nahum 1:5
The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.
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