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Habakkuk 1:3
Why do You make me see iniquity?
from Habakkuk’s First Complaint, Habakkuk 1:1-4
What it says

He asks why God makes him witness iniquity, destruction, strife, and contention.

What it is doing

This verse deepens the complaint by focusing on the persistence of evil.

In context

1This is the burden that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision: 2How long, O LORD, must I call for help 3Why do You make me see iniquity? 4Therefore the law is paralyzed,