Habakkuk 1:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Look at the nations and observe— be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.”
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““Look at the nations and observe— be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Behold ye among the nations, and look, and wonder marvellously; for I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Look ye on nations, and behold and marvel greatly. For a work He is working in your days, Ye do not believe though it is declared.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Habakkuk 1:5 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 4:27Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
- Isaiah 28:21For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.
- Isaiah 29:9Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.
- Isaiah 29:14Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”
- Jeremiah 5:12They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
- Jeremiah 9:25“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:
- Jeremiah 18:18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
- Jeremiah 25:14For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”
- Lamentations 4:12The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 12:22“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?
- Daniel 9:12You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.
- Zephaniah 1:2“I will completely sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.
- Acts 6:13where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
- Acts 13:40Watch out, then, that what was spoken by the prophets does not happen to you:
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