Habakkuk 1:13

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,

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  • Ps 34:15-16 : 15 The eyes of Jehovah `are' unto the righteous, And His ears unto their cry. 16 (The face of Jehovah `is' on doers of evil, To cut off from earth their memorial.)
  • Ps 35:22 : 22 Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, Be not silent, O Lord -- be not far from me,
  • Ps 50:21 : 21 These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.
  • Ps 10:15 : 15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;
  • Jer 12:1-2 : 1 Righteous `art' Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers. 2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root, They go on, yea, they have made fruit, Near `art' Thou in their mouth, And far off from their reins.
  • Acts 3:13-15 : 13 `The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release `him', 14 and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man -- a murderer -- to be granted to you, 15 and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 but according as He who did call you `is' holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour, 16 because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;'
  • Hab 1:3-4 : 3 Why dost Thou shew me iniquity, And perversity dost cause to behold? And spoiling and violence `are' before me, And there is strife, and contention doth lift `itself' up, 4 Therefore doth law cease, And judgment doth not go forth for ever, For the wicked is compassing the righteous, Therefore wrong judgment goeth forth.
  • Acts 2:23 : 23 this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- ye did slay;
  • Ps 11:4-7 : 4 `Jehovah `is' in his holy temple: Jehovah -- in the heavens `is' His throne. His eyes see -- His eyelids try the sons of men. 5 Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated, 6 He poureth on the wicked snares, fire, and brimstone, And a horrible wind `is' the portion of their cup. 7 For righteous `is' Jehovah, Righteousness He hath loved, The upright doth His countenance see!'
  • Ps 56:1-2 : 1 To the Overseer. -- `On the Dumb Dove far off.' -- A secret treasure of David, in the Philistines' taking hold of him in Gath. Favour me, O God, for man swallowed me up, All the day fighting he oppresseth me, 2 Mine enemies have swallowed up all the day, For many `are' fighting against me, O most High,
  • Ps 73:3 : 3 The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,
  • Ps 83:1 : 1 A Song, -- A Psalm of Asaph. O God, let there be no silence to Thee, Be not silent, nor be quiet, O God.
  • Prov 31:8-9 : 8 Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change. 9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'
  • Isa 21:2 : 2 A hard vision hath been declared to me, The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, All its sighing I have caused to cease.
  • Isa 33:1 : 1 Wo, spoiler! and thou not spoiled, And treacherous! and they dealt not treacherously with thee, When thou dost finish, O spoiler, thou art spoiled, When thou dost finish dealing treacherously, They deal treacherously with thee.
  • Isa 64:12 : 12 For these dost Thou refrain Thyself, Jehovah? Thou art silent, and dost afflict us very sore!'
  • Ps 37:12-15 : 12 The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth. 13 The Lord doth laugh at him, For He hath seen that his day cometh. 14 A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way. 15 Their sword doth enter into their own heart, And their bows are shivered.
  • Ps 37:32-33 : 32 The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death. 33 Jehovah doth not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him in his being judged.
  • Ps 50:3 : 3 Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.
  • 2 Sam 4:11 : 11 Also -- when wicked men have slain the righteous man in his own house, on his bed; and now, do not I require his blood of your hand, and have taken you away from the earth?'
  • 1 Kgs 2:32 : 32 and Jehovah hath turned back his blood on his own head, who hath fallen on two men more righteous and better than he, and slayeth them with the sword, -- and my father David knew not -- Abner son of Ner, head of the host of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, head of the host of Judah;
  • Esth 4:14 : 14 but if thou keep entirely silent at this time, respite and deliverance remaineth to the Jews from another place, and thou and the house of thy fathers are destroyed; and who knoweth whether for a time like this thou hast come to the kingdom?'
  • Job 15:15 : 15 Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.
  • Ps 5:4-5 : 4 For not a God desiring wickedness `art' Thou, Evil inhabiteth Thee not. 5 The boastful station not themselves before Thine eyes: Thou hast hated all working iniquity.
  • Ps 10:1-2 : 1 Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity, 2 Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

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