Habakkuk
7 verses from the Habakkuk cited as proof texts across the confessions and catechisms.
Open in the interactive reader →Over this, the law is numb, and justice does not go forth forever. For the wicked are surrounding the righteous. Upon thus, twisted justice goes forth.
Purer of eyes than to behold evil, and You are not able to look on wickedness. Why do You look on those acting treacherously, [and] remain quiet when the wicked is devouring one more righteous than he?
Upon thus he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his portion [is] rich and his food fat.
Behold, one is not puffed up whose soul is upright within him, and the righteous one will live by his faith.
What profit [is] an image when its fashioner has carved it, a molten image and a teacher of falsehood? For the one fashioning trusts upon it [in] his fashioning, making mute idols.
Woe [to] the one saying to the wood, ‘Awake!’ Or to a stone of silence, ‘Arise!’ Can it give instruction? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and not any breath [is] within it.”
And YHWH [is] in the temple of His holiness; let all the earth be silent before Him.