Habakkuk 1:4
"Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth."
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- Job 21:7
"Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 119:126
"It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 1:21
"How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 94:20
"Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?"
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 12:1
"Righteous 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?"
Read in chapter → - Ezekiel 9:9
"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."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 5:20
"Woe 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!"
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 59:13
"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."
Read in chapter → - Hosea 10:4
"They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field."
Read in chapter → - Ezekiel 22:25
"There 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."
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