Hab 1:3, 12-13 | ESV | STEP | Why do you make me see iniquity , and why do you idly look at wrong ? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise .

aSee Jer. 9:2-6

b[See ver. 2 above]

c Deut. 33:27; Ps. 90:2; 93:2

d[Mal. 3:6]

eSee Isa. 10:5-7

fSee Deut. 32:4

g[Ps. 5:5]

h Jer. 12:1

i Ps. 35:22

Habakkuk 1:3

3 ^aWhy do you make me see iniquity,
and why do you idly look at wrong?
Destruction ^band violence are before me;
strife and contention arise.

Habakkuk 1:12-13

Habakkuk’s Second Complaint

12 Are you not ^cfrom everlasting,
O Lord my God, my Holy One?
^dWe shall not die.
O Lord, ^eyou have ordained them as a judgment,
and you, O ^fRock, have established them for reproof.
13 You who are ^gof purer eyes than to see evil
and cannot look at wrong,
^hwhy do you idly look at traitors
and ⁱremain silent when the wicked swallows up
the man more righteous than he?