O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!

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Pardon your servant, Lord. What can I say, now that Israel has been routed by its enemies?

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But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict (A)wrath on us? ((B)I speak in a human way.) By no means! For then how could (C)God judge the world?

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But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly,(A) what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)(B) Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?(C)

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I will (A)take my stand at my watchpost
    and station myself on the tower,
and (B)look out to see (C)what he will say to me,
    and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

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I will stand at my watch(A)
    and station myself on the ramparts;(B)
I will look to see what he will say(C) to me,
    and what answer I am to give to this complaint.[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:1 Or and what to answer when I am rebuked

10 “And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,

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10 “But now, our God, what can we say after this? For we have forsaken the commands(A)

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