Habakkuk 1:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

Habakkuk 1:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 1:21-23
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. …
Job 21:7
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Psalms 119:126
It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
Psalms 94:20-21
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? …
Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

We are told no more in the title of this book (which we have, Hab. 1:1) than that the penman was a prophet, a man divinely inspired and commissioned, which is enough (if that be so, we need not ask concerning his tribe or family, or the place of his birth), and that the book itself is the burden which he saw; he was as sure of the truth of it as if he had seen it with his bodily eyes already accom…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. Therefore--because Thou dost suffer such crimes to go unpunished. law is slacked--is chilled. It has no authority and secures no respect. judgment--justice. wrong judgment proceedeth--Decisions are given contrary to right.