Habakkuk 1:2

"LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?"

Key Reflection

Habakkuk's cry expresses his frustration with the persistence of injustice in the face of God's apparent silence, highlighting a tension between human suffering and divine providence. This plea reflects both the prophet’s desperate appeal for justice and his acknowledgment that evil seems to thrive unchallenged by God.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

O Lord, how long shall I cry -Literally, “how long have I cried so intensely to Thee?” Because it is always the cry of the creature to the One who alone can hear or help - its God. Of this cry the Prophet expresses that it had already lasted long. In that long past he had cried out to God but no change had come. There is an undefined past, and this still continues.

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