Habakkuk 1:3-5

Complete Jewish Bible

³Why do you make me see wrongdoing,
why do you permit oppression?
Pillage and cruelty confront me,
so that strife and discord prevail.
⁴Therefore Torah is not followed;
justice never gets rendered,
because the wicked fence in the righteous.
This is why justice comes out perverted.

⁵“Look around among the nations!
What you see will completely astound you!
For what is going to be done in your days
you will not believe, even when you are told.

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