Habakkuk 1:3-5

New Catholic Bible

³ Why do you make me witness wrongdoing
    and confront me with wickedness?
Destruction and violence confront me;
    strife is everywhere, and discord abounds.
⁴ As a result, the law becomes ineffective
    and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
    and judgment becomes perverted.
⁵ “Gaze upon the nations and see.
    You will be amazed, even astounded.
You will not believe it when you are told
    what I am doing in your days.