Habakkuk 1:2-7

New International Version

² How long,^(A) Lord, must I call for help,
    but you do not listen?^(B)
Or cry out to you, “Violence!”
    but you do not save?^(C)
3 Why do you make me look at injustice?
    Why do you tolerate^(D) wrongdoing?^(E)
Destruction and violence^(F) are before me;
    there is strife,^(G) and conflict abounds.
⁴ Therefore the law^(H) is paralyzed,
    and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
    so that justice^(I) is perverted.^(J)

⁵ “Look at the nations and watch—
    and be utterly amazed.^(K)
For I am going to do something in your days
    that you would not believe,
    even if you were told.^(L)
6 I am raising up the Babylonians,^[a](M)
    that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth^(N)
    to seize dwellings not their own.^(O)
7 They are a feared and dreaded people;^(P)
    they are a law to themselves
    and promote their own honor.