Habakkuk 1:13 Cross References - Coverdale

¹³ Thine eyes are clene, thou mayest not se euell, thou canst not beholde ye thinge that is wicked. Wherfore then dost thou loke vpon the vngodly, and holdest thy tunge, when the wicked deuoureth the man that is better the himself?

¹¹ And these vngodly personnes haue slayne a righteous man in his owne house vpon his bed. Yee shulde not I requyre his bloude of youre handes, and take you awaye from ye earth?

³² and that the LORDE maye recompence him his bloude vpon his heade, because he smote two men, which were more righteous and better then he, and slewe them with ye swerde that my father Dauid knewe not of: namely, Abner ye sonne of Ner the chefe captaine ouer Israel, & Amasa the sonne of Iether ye chefe captaine ouer Iuda yt

¹⁴ for yf thou holdest thy peace at this tyme, then shal the Iewes haue helpe and delyueraunce out of another place, & thou & thy fathers house shalbe destroyed. And who knoweth whether thou art come to the kyngdome, for this tymes sake?

¹⁵ Beholde, he hath founde vnfaithfulnesse amoge his owne sanctes: yee the very heauens are vnclene in his sight.

⁴ For thou art not the God yt hath pleasure in wickednesse, there maye no vngodly personne dwel with the. ⁵ Soch as be cruell maye not stonde in thy sight, thou art an enemie vnto all wicked doers. Thou destroyest the lyers: the LORDE abhorreth the bloude thurstie and disceatfull.

¹ Why art thou gone so farre of, o LORDE? wilt thou hyde thyselff in tyme of trouble? ² Whyle ye vngodly hath the ouer hande, the poore must suffre persecucion: O that they were taken in the ymaginacions which they go aboute.

¹⁵ Breake thou ye arme off the vngodly and malycious, search out the wickednesse which he hath done, that he maye perish.

⁴ But the LORDE is in his holy temple, the LORDES seate is in heauen: He cosidereth it with his eyes, his eye lyddes beholde the children of men. ⁵ The LORDE seith both the rightuous and vngodly, but who so deliteth in wickednes, him his soule abhorreth. ⁶ Vpon the vngodly he shal rayne snares, fyre, brymstone, storme and tempest: this rewarde shal they haue to drynke. ⁷ For the LORDE is rightuous, ad he loueth rightuousnes, his countenaunce beholdeth the thige yt is iust.

¹⁵ For the eyes of the LORDE are ouer the rightuous, and his eares are open vnto their prayers. ¹⁶ But the face of the LORDE beholdeth them that do euel, to destroye the remembraunce of them out of the earth.

²² This thou seist, o LORDE: holde not thy tonge the: go not farre fro me, o LORDE.

¹² The vngodly layeth wayte for the iust, & gna?sheth vpon him wt his tethe. ¹³ But ye LORDE laugheth him to scorne, for he seith yt his daye is cominge. ¹⁴ The vngodly drawe out the swerde & bende their bowe, to cast downe ye symple & poore, and to slaye soch as go ye right waye. ¹⁵ Neuertheles, their swerde shal go thorow their owne hert, and their bowe shalbe broke.

³² The lawe of his God is in his hert, therfore shal not his fotesteppes slyde. ³³ The vngodly seyth the rightuous, & goeth aboute to slaye him.

³ Oure God shal come, and not kepe sylence: there goeth before him a consumynge fyre, and a mightie tempest rounde aboute him.

²¹ This thou doest, whyle I holde my tonge: and thinkest me to be eue soch one as thy self: but I wil reproue the, & set my self agaynst the.

¹ Be mercifull vnto me (o God) for men wil treade me downe: they are daylie fightinge & troublinge me. ² Myne enemies treade me daylie vnder their fete, for they be many, yt proudly fight agaynst me.

³ And why. I was greued at ye wicked, to se the vngodly in soch prosperite.

¹ Holde not thy tonge (o God) kepe not still sylece,, refrayne not yi self, o God.

⁸ Be thou an aduocate & stonde in iudgment thyself, to speake for all soch as be dome & sucourles. ⁹ With yi mouth defende ye thinge yt is laufull and right, and ye cause of ye poore and helplesse.

² Who so maye disceaue (sayde the voyce) let him disceaue: Who so maye distroye, let him distroye. Vp Elam, besege it o Madai, for I will still all their gronynges.

¹ Therfore wo vnto the (o robber) shalt not thou be robbed also? and vnto the that laiest wait, as who saye there shulde no waite be layde for the? Wo vnto the which doest hurte, euen so shalt thou be hurt also. And as thou layest waite, so shal wait be layde for the also.

¹² Wilt thou not be intreated (LORDE) for all this? Wilt thou holde thy peace, and scourge vs so sore?

¹ O Lorde, thou art more rightuous, then that I shulde dispute with the: Neuertheles, let me talke with the in thinges reasonable. How happeneth it, that the waye off the vngodly is so prosperous? and that it goeth so wel with them, which (with out eny shame) offede and lyue in wickednesse? ² Thou plantest them, they take rote, they growe, and bringe forth frute. They boost moch off the, yet doest thou not punysh them.

³ Why lettest thou me se weerynesse and laboure? Tyrany and violence are before me, power ouergoeth right: ⁴ for the lawe is torne in peces, and there can no right iudgment go forth. And why? the vngodly is more set by then the rightuous: this is the cause, yt wronge iudgment procedeth.

²³ him (after that he was delyuered by the determinate councell and foreknowlege of God) haue ye taken by the handes of vnrighteous personnes, and crucifyed him, & slayne him,

¹³ The God of Abraham and of Isaac, and of Iacob, ye God of oure fathers hath glorifyed his childe Iesus, whom ye delyuered and denyed in the presence of Pilate, whan he had iudged him to be lowsed. ¹⁴ But ye denyed the holy and iust, and desyred the murthurer to be geuen you, ¹⁵ but ye slewe the prynce of life, whom God hath raysed from the deed, of the which we are witnesses.

¹⁵ but as he which hath called you is holy, eue so be ye holy also in all youre conuersacion: ¹⁶ for it it wrytte: Be ye holy, for I am holy.