Habakkuk 1:2-4

Complete Jewish Bible

² Adonai, how long must I cry
without your hearing?
“Violence!” I cry to you,
but you don’t save.
³ Why do you make me see wrongdoing,
why do you permit oppression?
Pillage and cruelty confront me,
so that strife and discord prevail.
⁴ Therefore Torah is not followed;
justice never gets rendered,
because the wicked fence in the righteous.
This is why justice comes out perverted.