Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
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Habakkuk 1:4 · 43 connections
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It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. …
End of linked passage: Isaiah 1:23Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? …
End of linked passage: Psalms 94:21Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? …
End of linked passage: Psalms 58:2Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. …
End of linked passage: Isaiah 59:15There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. …
End of linked passage: Ezekiel 22:30They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. …
End of linked passage: Jeremiah 5:29And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt; …
End of linked passage: Jeremiah 26:23Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. …
End of linked passage: Jeremiah 37:16Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. …
End of linked passage: Micah 2:2And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? …
End of linked passage: Micah 3:3The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. …
End of linked passage: Micah 7:4Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: …
End of linked passage: Matthew 23:36Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; …
End of linked passage: Matthew 26:66When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: …
End of linked passage: Matthew 27:2Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. …
End of linked passage: Matthew 27:26And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. …
End of linked passage: Acts 23:14Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? …
End of linked passage: James 2:7And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. …
End of linked passage: Psalms 82:5But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. …
End of linked passage: Isaiah 59:8For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt. …
End of linked passage: Jeremiah 38:6Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
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