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Habakkuk 1

Hab. 1:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou art of purer
tahowr (Hebrew #2889)
from 2891; pure (in a physical, chemical, ceremonial or moral sense)
KJV usage: clean, fair, pure(-ness).
Pronounce: taw-hore'
Origin: or tahor {taw-hore'}
eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
than to behold
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
, and canst
yakol (Hebrew #3201)
a primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
KJV usage: be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.
Pronounce: yaw-kole'
Origin: or (fuller) yakowl {yaw-kole'}
not look
nabat (Hebrew #5027)
to scan, i.e. look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care
KJV usage: (cause to) behold, consider, look (down), regard, have respect, see.
Pronounce: naw-bat'
Origin: a primitive root
on χiniquity
`amal (Hebrew #5999)
toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind
KJV usage: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
Pronounce: aw-mawl'
Origin: from 5998
: wherefore lookest
nabat (Hebrew #5027)
to scan, i.e. look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care
KJV usage: (cause to) behold, consider, look (down), regard, have respect, see.
Pronounce: naw-bat'
Origin: a primitive root
thou upon them that deal treacherously
bagad (Hebrew #898)
to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage
KJV usage: deal deceitfully (treacherously, unfaithfully), offend, transgress(-or), (depart), treacherous (dealer, -ly, man), unfaithful(-ly, man), X very.
Pronounce: baw-gad'
Origin: a primitive root
, and holdest thy tongue
charash (Hebrew #2790)
to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness)
KJV usage: X altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow(-er, man), be quiet, rest, practise secretly, keep silence, be silent, speak not a word, be still, hold tongue, worker.
Pronounce: khaw-rash'
Origin: a primitive root
when the wicked
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
devoureth
bala` (Hebrew #1104)
to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroy
KJV usage: cover, destroy, devour, eat up, be at end, spend up, swallow down (up).
Pronounce: baw-lah'
Origin: a primitive root
the man that is more righteous
tsaddiyq (Hebrew #6662)
just
KJV usage: just, lawful, righteous (man).
Pronounce: tsad-deek'
Origin: from 6663
than he?
χ
or, grievance.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Job 15:15• 15Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight: (Job 15:15)
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Psa. 5:4‑5• 4For thou art not a *God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with thee.
 5Insolent fools shall not stand before thine eyes; thou hatest all workers of iniquity. (Psa. 5:4‑5)
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Psa. 11:4‑7• 4Jehovah is in the temple of his holiness; Jehovah,--his throne is in the heavens: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.
 5Jehovah trieth the righteous one; but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth.
 6Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone; and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
 7For righteous is Jehovah; he loveth righteousness, his countenance doth behold the upright. (Psa. 11:4‑7)
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Psa. 34:15‑16• 15The eyes of Jehovah are upon the righteous, and his ears are toward their cry;
 16The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth: (Psa. 34:15‑16)
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1 Peter 1:15‑16• 15but as he who has called you is holy, be ye also holy in all your conversation;
 16because it is written, Be ye holy, for *I* am holy. (1 Peter 1:15‑16)
iniquity.
or, grievance.
wherefore.
Psa. 10:1‑2,15• 1Why, Jehovah, standest thou afar off? Why hidest thou thyself in times of distress?
 2The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
 15Break thou the arm of the wicked, and as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none. (Psa. 10:1‑2,15)
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Psa. 73:3• 3For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked. (Psa. 73:3)
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Jer. 12:1‑2• 1Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of thy judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?
 2Thou hast planted them, they also have taken root: they advance, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins. (Jer. 12:1‑2)
deal.
Isa. 21:2• 2A grievous vision is declared unto me: the treacherous dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, Elam! besiege, Media! All the sighing thereof have I made to cease. (Isa. 21:2)
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Isa. 33:1• 1Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and that dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; when thou shalt make an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. (Isa. 33:1)
holdest.
Esther 4:14• 14For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there arise relief and deliverance to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall perish. And who knows whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this? (Esther 4:14)
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Psa. 35:22• 22Thou hast seen it, Jehovah: keep not silence; O Lord, be not far from me. (Psa. 35:22)
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Psa. 50:3,21• 3Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
 21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. (Psa. 50:3,21)
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Psa. 83:1• 1A Song; a Psalm of Asaph. O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O *God: (Psa. 83:1)
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Prov. 31:8‑9• 8Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all those that are left desolate.
 9Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the afflicted and needy. (Prov. 31:8‑9)
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Isa. 64:12• 12Wilt thou restrain thyself in presence of these things, Jehovah? Wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? (Isa. 64:12)
the wicked.
Hab. 1:3‑4• 3Why dost thou cause me to see iniquity, and lookest thou upon grievance? For spoiling and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.
 4Therefore the law is powerless, and justice doth never go forth; for the wicked encompasseth the righteous; therefore judgment goeth forth perverted. (Hab. 1:3‑4)
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2 Sam. 4:11• 11how much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? and should I not now demand his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth? (2 Sam. 4:11)
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1 Kings 2:32• 32And Jehovah shall requite the blood which he shed upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, without my father David's knowledge: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah. (1 Kings 2:32)
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Psa. 37:12‑15,32‑33• 12The wicked plotteth against the righteous, and gnasheth his teeth against him.
 13The Lord laugheth at him; for he seeth that his day is coming.
 14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the afflicted and needy, to slay those that are upright in the way:
 15their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
 32The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him:
 33Jehovah will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. (Psa. 37:12‑15,32‑33)
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Psa. 56:1‑2• 1To the chief Musician. On Jonathelem-rechokim. Of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be gracious unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: all the day long fighting he oppresseth me.
 2Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; for they are many that fight against me haughtily. (Psa. 56:1‑2)
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Acts 2:23• 23--him, given up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye, by the hand of lawless men, have crucified and slain. (Acts 2:23)
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Acts 3:13‑15• 13The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom *ye* delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when *he* had judged that he should be let go.
 14But *ye* denied the holy and righteous one, and asked that a man that was a murderer should be granted to you;
 15but the originator of life ye slew, whom God raised from among the dead, whereof *we* are witnesses. (Acts 3:13‑15)
• This is what drew out the prophet’s heart-that the people of God, let their faults be what they might, contained whatever was righteous at that time on the earth, and that these Chaldeans, raised up to humble the Jews, were as merciless in their dealings with them as they were forgetful and contemptuous toward God Himself. (“Habakkuk 1” by W. Kelly)
• The prophet bases his conclusions, not simply on the wickedness of the enemy, but, on the holiness of God. (“The Card on the Pavement”)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on mischief: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and keepest silence when the wicked swalloweth up a man more righteous than he?