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Habakkuk’s Question

12 Didn’t you exist before time began, O Yahweh, my Elohim, my Holy One?
    We will not die!
    O Yahweh, you have appointed the Babylonians to bring judgment.
    O Rock, you have destined them to correct us.
13 Your eyes are too pure to look at evil.
    You can’t watch wickedness.
    Why do you keep watching treacherous people?
    Why are you silent when wicked people swallow those
        who are more righteous than they are?
14 You make all people like the fish in the sea,
    like schools of sea life that have no ruler.

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Habakkuk’s Second Complaint

12 Lord, are you not from everlasting?(A)
    My God, my Holy One,(B) you[a] will never die.(C)
You, Lord, have appointed(D) them to execute judgment;
    you, my Rock,(E) have ordained them to punish.
13 Your eyes are too pure(F) to look on evil;
    you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.(G)
Why then do you tolerate(H) the treacherous?(I)
    Why are you silent while the wicked
    swallow up those more righteous than themselves?(J)
14 You have made people like the fish in the sea,
    like the sea creatures that have no ruler.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:12 An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition; Masoretic Text we