Habakkuk 1:3-4

  • Change of Subject

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Why do you make me look at injustice?  Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?  Destruction and violence are before me;  there is strife, and conflict abounds.  Therefore the law is paralyzed,  and justice never prevails.  The wicked hem in the righteous,  so that justice is perverted.  Habakkuk 1:3-4  NIV   Tolerate – What is the subject of the second question in the NIV translation?  “You.”  That pronoun stands in the place of “God.”  If the…

  • Prophetic Agony

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Why do you make me look at injustice?  Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?  Destruction and violence are before me;  there is strife, and conflict abounds.  Therefore the law is paralyzed,  and justice never prevails.  The wicked hem in the righteous,  so that justice is perverted.  Habakkuk 1:3-4  NIV Make me look – “A startled, tormented man is Habakkuk.  He is…