Hiding My Face

1 The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet received.

2 How long, O LORD, must I call for help, but You do not listen? Or cry out to You, "Violence!" but You do not save?

3 Why do You make me look at injustice? Why do You tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.

4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

5 "Look at the nations and watch — and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.

-Habakkuk 1:1-5