Habakkuk 1:3-5

Contemporary English Version

³ Why do you make me watch
    such terrible injustice?
Why do you allow violence,
lawlessness, crime, and cruelty
    to spread everywhere?
⁴ Laws cannot be enforced;
    justice is always the loser;
criminals crowd out honest people
    and twist the laws around.

^5 (A) Look and be amazed
at what's happening
    among the nations!
Even if you were told,
you would never believe
    what's taking place now.