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Habakkuk 1
Habakkuk opens not with a message to deliver but with a grievance aimed upward: how long will God ignore the violence and twisted justice in Judah? The answer he gets is worse than the silence. God is raising the Chaldeans (Babylon) to sweep through the land. That sets up a second, sharper protest. Watch the two-round structure: complaint, divine reply, then a harder complaint about the reply itself.
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The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
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LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
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Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
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Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
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“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.
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For, behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation who march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
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They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
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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.
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All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.
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Yes, they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build up an earthen ramp and take it.
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Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.”
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Aren’t you from everlasting, LORD my God, my Holy One? We will not die. LORD, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
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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,
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and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?
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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.
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Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good.
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Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
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A revelação que o profeta Habacuque viu.
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SENHOR, até quando clamarei, e tu não ouvirás? Eu grito a ti: “Violência!”, e não salvarás?
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Por que me mostras a iniquidade e ficas olhando para a perversidade? Pois a destruição e a violência estão diante de mim. Há contenda, e o litígio se levanta.
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Portanto a lei está paralisada, e a justiça nunca prevalece; pois os ímpios cercam os justos; por isso a justiça sai pervertida.
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“Olhem entre as nações, observem e fiquem maravilhados; pois estou realizando uma obra em seus dias na qual vocês não acreditariam, mesmo que lhes fosse contada.
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Pois, eis que, estou levantando os caldeus, aquela nação amarga e impetuosa que marcha por toda a largura da terra, para tomar posse de moradias que não são suas.
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Eles são temidos e pavorosos. Seu juízo e sua dignidade procedem de si mesmos.
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Seus cavalos também são mais velozes que os leopardos, e são mais ferozes que os lobos ao anoitecer. Seus cavaleiros avançam com orgulho. Sim, seus cavaleiros vêm de longe. Eles voam como uma águia que se apressa para devorar.
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Todos eles vêm para a violência. Suas hordas avançam para a frente. Eles ajuntam prisioneiros como a areia.
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Sim, eles zombam dos reis, e os príncipes são motivo de ridículo para eles. Eles riem de todas as fortalezas, pois constroem rampas de terra e as conquistam.
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Então eles passam como o vento e seguem adiante. Eles são de fato culpados, aqueles cuja força é o seu deus.”
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Acaso não és desde a eternidade, SENHOR meu Deus, meu Santo? Nós não morreremos. SENHOR, tu os designaste para juízo. Tu, ó Rocha, o estabeleceste para punir.
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Tu que tens os olhos puros demais para ver o mal, e que não podes olhar para a perversidade, por que toleras os que agem traiçoeiramente e te calas quando o ímpio engole o homem que é mais justo do que ele,
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e tornas os homens como os peixes do mar, como os seres rastejantes que não têm governante sobre eles?
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Ele puxa a todos eles com o anzol. Ele os apanha em sua rede e os ajunta em sua rede de arrasto. Por isso ele se alegra e exulta.
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Portanto, ele oferece sacrifícios à sua rede e queima incenso à sua rede de arrasto, porque por meio delas a sua vida é luxuosa e a sua comida é boa.
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Continuará ele, portanto, a esvaziar a sua rede, e a matar as nações sem misericórdia?
The problem with the answer
The prophet's first cry is about injustice at home (vv. 2-4). God's reply (vv. 5-11) names a fix that horrifies him: a nation whose horses are "swifter than leopards" and whose "strength is their god." In vv. 12-17 Habakkuk turns the screw. How can a God too pure to look on evil use a crueler people to punish a less wicked one, hauling men up "like the fish of the sea" with no ruler? The chapter ends on the unanswered question, leaving the tension for chapter 2.
Context layers
Keep these closed by default and open them only when you want more context.
- JudgmentWhat judgment means in the Bible, how it relates to justice, mercy, and final accountability, and where to read it without flattening it into threat or embarrassment.
- MercyWhat mercy means in the Bible, how it differs from sentimentality, and where Scripture shows its depth most clearly.
- Fear of the LordWhat the fear of the Lord means in the Bible, how it relates to wisdom, reverence, obedience, and trust.
- Isaiah 33:22Key passage connected to Judgment.
- Romans 2:5-8Key passage connected to Judgment.
- Revelation 20:11-15Key passage connected to Judgment.
- Psalms 103:8-13Key passage connected to Mercy.
- Luke 18:13-14Key passage connected to Mercy.
- Ephesians 2:4-5Key passage connected to Mercy.
- Proverbs 1:7Key passage connected to Fear of the Lord.
- Psalms 111:10Key passage connected to Fear of the Lord.
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