Habakkuk 1:3-7
Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you force me to see this wickedness and suffering? Why do you just observe such destruction and violence? Arguments and fighting happen right in front of me!
Habakkuk 1:4
As a result the law is paralyzed, and justice never wins. The wicked crowd out those who do right so that the course of justice is perverted.
Habakkuk 1:5
Look around at the nations, watch and be surprised and amazed. Something is going to happen in your time that you wouldn't believe even if you were told.
Habakkuk 1:6
Watch! I am raising up the Babylonians, a cruel and brutal people who will march across the world to seize other lands.
Habakkuk 1:7
They are fearsome and terrifying, and so proud of themselves that they set their own rules.