“Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.”
Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise—the prophet's accusation shifts from silence to apparent indifference, suggesting that God sees injustice yet permits its continuation. The multiplication of evil-words (iniquity, wrong, destruction, violence, strife, contention) emphasizes the pervasive moral corruption Habakkuk witnesses. The theological crisis deepens: if God sees yet does not intervene, what does this mean for divine justice?
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