Habakkuk 1:2-4

Good News Translation

Habakkuk Complains of Injustice

² O Lord, how long must I call for help before you listen, before you save us from violence? ³ Why do you make me see such trouble? How can you stand to look on such wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are all around me, and there is fighting and quarreling everywhere. ⁴ The law is weak and useless, and justice is never done. Evil people get the better of the righteous, and so justice is perverted.