Habakkuk 1:4-5, 12-13
4 Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds. 5 “Look among the nations and watch—be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you. 12 Are You not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, You have appointed them for judgment; O Rock, You have marked them for correction. 13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously, and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a person more righteous than he?
4 Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds. 5 “Look among the nations and watch—be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you. 12 Are You not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, You have appointed them for judgment; O Rock, You have marked them for correction. 13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously, and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a person more righteous than he?
Chaldeans were used to execute God's anger on the continual sin of His people, yet the problem was that His people tried by following rules of the law which they could never keep in their own strength. Ah, but God promised to do a work unheard of. He did this for us all in sending His Son among us to save us from the judgement we deserve and can never escape in or of ourselves. God cannot stand to put up with rebellious evil - sin - so He Himself took on the judgement in Christ in our place for those called out to Him and responding. The work we have difficulty believing though it is told us.
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