| 1 | The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw. | Isa 22:1 Nah 1:1 |
| 2 | Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save? | Ps 13:1 Ps 13:2 Ps 74:9 Ps 74:10 Ps 94:3 Rev 6:10 |
| 3 | Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up. | Ps 12:1 Ps 12:2 Ps 55:9-11 Ps 73:3-9 Ps 120:5 Ps 120:6 Ec 4:1 Ec 5:8 Jer 9:2-6 Ezk 2:6 Mic 7:1-4 Mt 10:16 2Pe 2:8 |
| 4 | Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted. | Ps 11:3 Ps 119:126 Mk 7:9 Ro 3:31 |
| 5 | "Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you. | Dt 4:27 Jer 9:25 Jer 9:26 Jer 25:14-29 |
| 6 | For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs. | Dt 28:49-52 2Ki 24:2 2Ch 36:6 2Ch 36:17 Isa 23:13 Isa 39:6 Isa 39:7 Jer 1:15 Jer 1:16 Jer 4:6 Jer 4:8 Jer 5:15 Jer 6:22 Jer 6:23 Jer 21:4 Jer 25:9 |
| 7 | They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. | Jer 39:5-9 Jer 52:9-11 Jer 52:25-27 Dt 5:19 Dt 5:27 |
| 8 | Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour. | Dt 28:49 Isa 5:26-28 |
| 9 | All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand. | Hab 1:6 Hab 2:5-13 Dt 28:51 Dt 28:52 Jer 4:7 Jer 5:15-17 Jer 25:9 |
| 10 | Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it. | 2Ki 24:12 2Ki 25:6 2Ki 25:7 2Ch 36:6 2Ch 36:10 |
| 11 | Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god." | Dn 4:30-34 |
| 12 | Aren`t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish. | Dt 33:27 Ps 90:2 Ps 93:2 Isa 40:28 Isa 57:15 Lam 5:19 Mic 5:2 1Ti 1:17 1Ti 6:16 Heb 1:10-12 Heb 13:8 Rev 1:8 Rev 1:11 |
| 13 | You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he, | Jb 15:15 Ps 5:4 Ps 5:5 Ps 11:4-7 Ps 34:15 Ps 34:16 1Pe 1:15 1Pe 1:16 |
| 14 | and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? | Pr 6:7 |
| 15 | He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. | Jer 16:16 Ezk 29:4 Ezk 29:5 Am 4:2 Mt 17:27 |
| 16 | Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good. | Hab 1:11 Dt 8:17 Isa 10:13-15 Isa 37:24 Ezk 28:3 Ezk 29:3 Dn 4:30 Dn 5:23 |
| 17 | Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy? | Hab 1:9 Hab 1:10 Hab 2:5-8 Hab 2:17-8 Isa 14:16 Isa 14:17 Jer 25:9-26 Jer 46:1-49 Jer 52:1-34 Ezk 25:1-30 |
