Habakkuk 1:2
Verse 2 of 17. The 1st of 3 chapters in Habakkuk, in The Minor Prophets.
1The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
2O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
3Why 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.
4Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
5Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
6For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
Habakkuk 1:2 in the World English Bible
LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?Read Habakkuk 1:2 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 1:2
The prophet cries out of violence (v. 2), iniquity and grievance, spoil and violence. In families and among relations, in neighbour-hoods and among friends, in commerce and in courts of law, every thing was carried with a high hand, and no man made any scruple of doing wrong to his neighbour, so that he could but make a good hand of it for himself.
Read Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 1:1–4: The Sins of the People. (b. c. 600.)
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