Habakkuk 1:3 Parallel Translations

Why do you make me see wrongdoing? And why do you watch wickedness? Destruction and violence are in front of me. Quarrels and disputes arise.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

ASV:

Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.

BBE:

Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.

DBY:

Why dost thou cause me to see iniquity, and lookest thou upon grievance? For spoiling and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.

ERV:

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there is strife, and contention riseth up.

JPS:

Why dost Thou show me iniquity, and beholdest mischief? And why are spoiling and violence before me? so that there is strife, and contention ariseth.

WBS:

Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for devastation and violence are before me: and there are that raise strife and contention.

WEB:

Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

YLT:

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,

Habakkuk 1:3 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 55:9 Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongues, For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Jeremiah 15:10 Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land! I have not lent, nor have men lent money to me, Yet everyone curses me.

Jeremiah 20:8 For each time I speak, I cry aloud; I proclaim violence and destruction, Because for me the word of the LORD has resulted In reproach and derision all day long.

Jeremiah 20:18 Why did I ever come forth from the womb To look on trouble and sorrow, So that my days have been spent in shame? (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

1:1-11 The servants of the Lord are deeply afflicted by seeing ungodliness and violence prevail; especially among those who profess the truth. No man scrupled doing wrong to his neighbour. We should long to remove to the world where holiness and love reign for ever, and no violence shall be before us. God has good reasons for his long-suffering towards bad men, and the rebukes of good men. The day will come when the cry of sin will be heard against those that do wrong, and the cry of prayer for those that suffer wrong. They were to notice what was going forward among the heathen by the Chaldeans, and to consider themselves a nation to be scourged by them. But most men presume on continued prosperity, or that calamities will not come in their days. They are a bitter and hasty nation, fierce, cruel, and bearing down all before them. They shall overcome all that oppose them. But it is a great offence, and the common offence of proud people, to take glory to themselves. The closing words give a glimpse of comfort.

CONC:

Abounds Acts Argument Arise Arises Ariseth Behold Beholdest Bitter Cause Conflict Contention Destruction Devastation Evil-doing Exists Fighting Fixed Grievance Iniquity Itself Lift Lookest Mischief Perverseness Perversity Raise Rises Riseth Shew Spoiling Strife Tolerate Trouble Violence Violent Wasting Wickedness Wrong Wrongs Yes

Abounds Acts Arise Arises Ariseth Beholdest Bitter Cause Conflict Contention Destruction Devastation Evil-Doing Exists Eyes Fighting Fixed Grievance Iniquity Injustice Itself Lift Mischief Perversity Raise Rises Riseth Shew Show Spoiling Strife Tolerate Trouble Violence Violent Wasting Wickedness Wrong Wrongs

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