1 The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet received in vision.
2 How long, O LORD? I cry for help but you do not listen! I cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not intervene.
3 Why do you let me see ruin; why must I look at misery? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and clamorous discord.
4 This is why the law is benumbed, and judgment is never rendered: Because the wicked circumvent the just; this is why judgment comes forth perverted.
5 Look over the nations and see, and be utterly amazed! For a work is being done in your days that you would not have believed, were it told.
6 For see, I am raising up Chaldea, that bitter and unruly people, That marches the breadth of the land to take dwellings not his own.
7 Terrible and dreadful is he, from himself derive his law and his majesty.
8 Swifter than leopards are his horses, and keener than wolves at evening. His horses prance, his horsemen come from afar: They fly like the eagle hastening to devour;
9 each comes for the rapine, Their combined onset is that of a stormwind that heaps up captives like sand.
10 He scoffs at kings, and princes are his laughingstock; He laughs at any fortress, heaps up a ramp, and conquers it.
11 Then he veers like the wind and is gone-- this culprit who makes his own strength his god!
12 , you have readied him for punishment!
13 Too pure are your eyes to look upon evil, and the sight of misery you cannot endure. Why, then, do you gaze on the faithless in silence while the wicked man devours one more just than himself?
14 You have made man like the fish of the sea, like creeping things without a ruler.
15 He brings them all up with his hook, he hauls them away with his net, He gathers them in his seine; and so he rejoices and exults.
16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his seine; For thanks to them his portion is generous, and his repast sumptuous.
17 Shall he, then, keep on brandishing his sword to slay peoples without mercy?
Versículos relacionados com Habakkuk, 1:
In chapter 1 of the book of Habakkuk, the prophet regrets before God the oppression and violence he sees around him. He questions why God allows evil to prevail and why He does not intervene. God responds that He will use Babylonians as an instrument of judgment against the iniquity of Judah. Below are five verses related to the topics dealt with in Habacuque 1:
Proverbs 21:13: "Whoever closes the ears to the cry of the poor will cry out and will not be heard." This verse talks about the importance of listening and helping the needy. This relates to the theme of Habakkuk 1 because the prophet cries to God in the name of the suffering people, and wonders why his prayers are not met.
Isaiah 5:20: "Woe to evil to call well, and good, evil; who make darkness light, and light, darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet, bitter!" This verse talks about the inversion of values and the distortion of truth. This relates to the theme of Habakkuk 1 because the prophet is perplexed to the apparent inconsistency of God, which allows evil and injustice.
Ezekiel 7:23: "Make them a manure of manure instead of diadema; spread over them your filth." This verse talks about divine punishment for corruption and impurity. This relates to the theme of Habakkuk 1 because God announces that he will judge the people of Judah for his iniquity and sin.
Jeremiah 12:1: "You are righteous, Lord, when I present my cause before you. However, I would like to argue with you about your righteousness. Why do the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all traitors live without problems?" This verse talks about human questioning before the mystery of divine justice. This relates to the theme of Habakkuk 1 because the prophet wonders why God allows the impunity of the oppressors and the disgrace of the innocent.
Psalm 73:2-3: "But I almost stumbled and fell, almost lost my balance, because I was envy of the proud, seeing the prosperity of these wicked." These verses talk about the temptation to envy the apparent prosperity of the unjust. This is related to the theme of Habakkuk 1 because the prophet admits his difficulty in understanding why God allows oppressors to triumph while the righteous suffer.
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