Habakkuk 1:13

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Habakkuk 1:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”

12 Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.

13 Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

14 You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.

15 The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.

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Psalms 11:5

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Psalms 11:6

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for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

Psalms 10:1

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Jeremiah 12:1

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Jeremiah 12:2

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Isaiah 21:2

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For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

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Psalms 50:3

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Psalms 50:21

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Proverbs 31:8

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Habakkuk 1:3

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Habakkuk 1:4

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Acts 3:14

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Acts 3:15

You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.