Habakkuk 1:3

"Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up."

Key Reflection

Habakkuk questions why God reveals iniquity and perversity when destruction and violence are already prevalent around him. This expresses the prophet's struggle to understand God’s apparent tolerance of wickedness, highlighting his concern about the severity and pervasiveness of evil in society.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Why dost Thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold -, or rather, “Why beholdest Thou grievance?” God seemed to reverse what He had said by BalaamNumbers 23:21, “He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, and hath not seen grievousness in Israel”; and in the PsalmsPsalms 10:14, “Thou hast seen, for thou (emphatic) beholdest grievousness and wrong, to put it in Thy hand,” i. e., Thou layest it up in Thy hand, to cast it back on the head of the evildoer.

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