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Habakkuk 1:2
“Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save?”
Verse in context — Habakkuk 1
1
The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save?
3
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.
About Habakkuk
Dialogue with God about evil, ending with trust in His sovereignty.
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