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11 Then they sweep like the wind and pass on;
    they become guilty, whose might is their[a] god!”

Habakkuk’s Second Complaint

12 Are you not from of old,
    O Yahweh my God, my Holy One?
    You[b] shall not die.
O Yahweh, you have marked them[c] for judgment;
    O Rock, you have established them[d] for reproof.
13 Your eyes are too pure to see evil,
    and you are not able to look at wrongdoing.[e]
Why do you look at the treacherous?
Why are you silent when the wicked swallows up
    someone more righteous than him?

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:11 Hebrew “his”
  2. Habakkuk 1:12 Hebrew “we shall not die,” considered a deliberate scribal change of the text to avoid offensive language toward Yahweh
  3. Habakkuk 1:12 Hebrew “him”
  4. Habakkuk 1:12 Hebrew “him”
  5. Habakkuk 1:13 Or “trouble”