Habakkuk 1:4

Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data

"Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth."

Word-by-Word Analysis

כֵּן

kên

H3651

properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...

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the

תּוֹרָה

tôwrâh

H8451

a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch

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is

פּוּג

pûwg

H6313

to be sluggish

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and

מִשְׁפָּט

mishpâṭ

H4941

properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind...

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doth

עוֹלָם

ʻôwlâm

H5769

properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (...

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יָלַךְ

yâlak

H3212

to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)

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יָצָא

yâtsâʼ

H3318

to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.

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for the

רָשָׁע

râshâʻ

H7563

morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person

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doth

סָבַב

çâbab

H5437

to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively

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סָבִיב

çâbîyb

H5439

(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around

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the

צַדִּיק

tsaddîyq

H6662

just

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כֵּן

kên

H3651

properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...

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חָמָס

châmâç

H2555

violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain

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מִשְׁפָּט

mishpâṭ

H4941

properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind...

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יָצָא

yâtsâʼ

H3318

to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.

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Key Terms in This Verse

slacked H6313

פּוּג pûwg

to be sluggish

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proceedeth H3318

יָצָא yâtsâʼ

to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.

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wrong H2555

חָמָס châmâç

violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain

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compass H5437

סָבַב çâbab

to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively

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never H5769

עוֹלָם ʻôwlâm

properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always

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righteous H6662

צַדִּיק tsaddîyq

just

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judgment H4941

מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ

properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the pla...

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judgment H4941

מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ

properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the pla...

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wicked H7563

רָשָׁע râshâʻ

morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person

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law H8451

תּוֹרָה tôwrâh

a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch

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Cross References

Psalm 119:126 cross-reference

It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.

Job 21:7 cross-reference

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Ezekiel 9:9 cross-reference

Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth...

Jeremiah 12:1 cross-reference

Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Isaiah 5:20 cross-reference

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Deuteronomy 16:19 cross-reference

Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Exodus 23:6 cross-reference

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

Amos 5:12 cross-reference

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

Hosea 10:4 cross-reference

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Exodus 23:2 cross-reference

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

Mark 7:9 cross-reference

And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

Acts 7:59 cross-reference

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Psalm 59:2 cross-reference

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

Psalm 59:4 cross-reference

They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.

Psalm 94:3 cross-reference

LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

Acts 7:52 cross-reference

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

Romans 3:31 cross-reference

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Jeremiah 12:6 cross-reference

For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee...

Psalm 11:3 cross-reference

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

1 Kings 21:13 cross-reference

And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and...

Psalm 22:16 cross-reference

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Amos 5:7 cross-reference

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Jeremiah 26:8 cross-reference

Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, ...

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