Habakkuk Calls for Help
The aoracle which Habakkuk the prophet beheld.
2 aHow long, O Yahweh, will I call for help,
And You will not hear?
I cry out to You, “Violence!”
Yet You do bnot save.
3 Why do You make me asee wickedness
And cause me to look on trouble?
Indeed, bdevastation and violence are before me;
cAnd there is strife, and contention is lifted up.
4 Therefore the alaw is ignored,
And justice never comes forth.
For the wicked bsurround the righteous;
Therefore justice comes forth cperverted.