Habakkuk On Sentiments Seeing The Wicked Prosper

G-d may not seem to care, or favor evil as it appears.

But the truth of the matter is, there is a limit to such deeds.

If you practice good deeds, G-d will use you to bless others. But, if you do evil He will still use you; but otherwise.

“Justice Distorted”

“Plea To G-d”

The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet saw.
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How long, O Hashem, will I cry out and You not hear me; [how long] will I cry out to You [regarding] injustice and You not save?
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Why do You allow me to see iniquity and You look at evil deeds, with robbery and injustice before me, while the one who carries strife and contention still remains?
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That is why the Torah is weakened and justice never emerges. Since the wicked surround the righteous, therefore justice emerges distorted.
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Are You not from the beginning of time, O Hashem my God, my Holy One? Let us not die! O Hashem, You have ordained him for judgment; O Stronghold, You have established him to chasten [us].
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[Your eyes] are too pure to see evil and You cannot look upon wrongdoing. Why, then, do You look upon betrayers? [Why do] You remain silent when a wicked man swallows up one more righteous than he?
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You have made man like the [helpless] fish of the sea, like creeping things without a ruler.
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Therefore, he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his trawl, for through them his portion is fat and his food is plentiful.
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1 The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet prophesied:
2 O Lord! How long will I cry and You will not hear! I cry out to You of violence, and You will not save!
3 Why do You show me iniquity and look upon mischief; and plunder and violence are before me; and the one who bears quarrel and strife endures.
4 Therefore Torah is slackened, and justice does not go out forever, for a wicked man surrounds the righteous; therefore, justice emerges perverted.
5 See among the nations, and look, and wonder with amazement, for He is performing a deed in your days. You shall not believe when it is told
6 that behold, I am setting up the Chaldeans, the bitter and impetuous nation who shall march through the breadth of the land, to inherit dwellings that are not theirs.
7 They are terrible and dreadful; from themselves their judgment and their burden shall emanate.
8 And their steeds are swifter than leopards, and they are more fierce than the wolves of the evening; and their riders shall increase and their riders shall come from afar; they shall fly like an eagle that hastens to devour.
9 They shall all come to commit violence-the eagerness of their faces is like the east wind, and they have gathered captives like the sand.
10 And they shall mock the kings, and princes are a laughingstock for them. He shall scoff at every fortress; he piles up earth and captures it.
11 Then a spirit goes further and passes, and they become guilty; this strength they attribute to their god.
12 Are You not from everlasting, O Lord, my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, You have ordained them for judgment, and, O Mighty God, You have established them for correction.
13 [You are] of eyes too pure to behold evil, and You cannot gaze upon iniquity. Why should You gaze upon traitors, be silent when a wicked man swallows up one more righteous than he?
14 And You have made man like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things of the earth over which there is no ruler.
15 He takes all of them up with the fishhook, he catches them in his net and gathers them in his trawl. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and he burns incense to his trawl, for through them his portion is fat and his food is a fatling.
17 Is it because of this that he empties his net and continually [does] not spare to slay nations?