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Hab. 1:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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the law.

Psa. 11:3• ³If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do? (Psa. 11:3)

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Psa. 119:126• ¹²⁶It is time for Jehovah to work: they have made void thy law. (Psa. 119:126)

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Mark 7:9• ⁹And he said to them, Well do ye set aside the commandment of God, that ye may observe what is delivered by yourselves to keep. (Mark 7:9)

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Rom. 3:31• ³¹Do we then make void law by faith? Far be the thought: no, but we establish law. (Rom. 3:31)

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1 Kings 21:13• ¹³And there came the two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him; and the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. (1 Kings 21:13)

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Job 21:7• ⁷Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power? (Job 21:7)

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Psa. 22:16• ¹⁶For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet. (Psa. 22:16)

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Psa. 58:1‑2• ¹To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam. Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men?
²Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. (Psa. 58:1‑2)

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Psa. 59:2,4• ²Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from men of blood.
⁴They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to meet me, and behold. (Psa. 59:2,4)

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Psa. 82:1‑5• ¹A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the assembly of *God, he judgeth among the gods.
²How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the person of the wicked? Selah.
³Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute;
⁴Rescue the poor and needy, deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.
⁵They know not, neither do they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are moved. (Psa. 82:1‑5)

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Psa. 94:3,20‑21• ³How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked triumph?
²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law?
²¹They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood. (Psa. 94:3,20‑21)

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Isa. 1:21‑23• ²¹How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers.
²²Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is mixed with water:
²³thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them. (Isa. 1:21‑23)

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Isa. 59:2‑8,13‑15• ²but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he doth not hear.
³For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips speak lies, your tongue muttereth unrighteousness:
⁴none calleth for justice, none pleadeth in truthfulness. They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
⁵They hatch serpents' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
⁶Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
⁷Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths;
⁸the way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their goings; they have made their paths crooked: whoso goeth therein knoweth not peace.
¹³in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
¹⁴And judgment is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth stumbleth in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.
¹⁵And truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it was evil in his sight that there was no judgment. (Isa. 59:2‑8,13‑15)

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Jer. 5:27‑29• ²⁷As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and have enriched themselves.
²⁸They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not adjudge.
²⁹Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? (Jer. 5:27‑29)

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Jer. 12:1,6• ¹Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of thy judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?
⁶For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee, even they have cried aloud after thee. Believe them not, though they speak good words unto thee. (Jer. 12:1,6)

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Jer. 26:8,21‑23• ⁸And it came to pass when Jeremiah had ended speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, Thou shalt certainly die.
²¹and Jehoiakim the king, and all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, and the king sought to put him to death; but Urijah heard it, and he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt.
²²And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and men with him, into Egypt;
²³and they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king; and he slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the children of the people. (Jer. 26:8,21‑23)

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Jer. 37:14‑16• ¹⁴And Jeremiah said, It is false: I am not deserting to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him; and Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
¹⁵And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in the place of confinement in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
¹⁶When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon and into the vaults, and Jeremiah had remained there many days, (Jer. 37:14‑16)

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Jer. 38:4‑6• ⁴And the princes said unto the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death; for why should he weaken the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking to them according to these words? for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
⁵And king Zedekiah said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he that can do a thing against you.
⁶Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the guard, and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. (Jer. 38:4‑6)

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Ezek. 22:25‑30• ²⁵There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of her like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they devour souls; they take away treasure and precious things; they increase her widows in the midst of her;
²⁶her priests do violence to my law, and profane my holy things: they put no difference between the holy and profane, neither do they make known the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they hide their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
²⁷Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
²⁸And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah! and Jehovah hath not spoken.
²⁹The people of the land use oppression and practise robbery; and they vex the poor and needy, and oppress the stranger wrongfully.
³⁰And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the fence, and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none. (Ezek. 22:25‑30)

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Hos. 10:4• ⁴They speak mere words, swearing falsely in making a covenant; therefore shall judgment spring up as hemlock in the furrows of the fields. (Hos. 10:4)

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Amos 5:7,12• ⁷Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
¹²For I know how manifold are your transgressions and your sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the right of the needy in the gate. (Amos 5:7,12)

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Mic. 2:1‑2• ¹Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
²And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away; and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. (Mic. 2:1‑2)

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Mic. 3:1‑3• ¹And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?
²Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;
³and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron. (Mic. 3:1‑3)

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Mic. 7:2‑4• ²The godly man hath perished out of the land, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net.
³Both hands are for evil, to do it well. The prince asketh, and the judge is there for a reward; and the great man uttereth his soul's greed: and together they combine it.
⁴The best of them is as a briar; the most upright, worse than a thorn-fence. The day of thy watchmen, thy visitation is come; now shall be their perplexity. (Mic. 7:2‑4)

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Matt. 23:34‑36• ³⁴Therefore, behold, *I* send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city;
³⁵so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
³⁶Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. (Matt. 23:34‑36)

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Matt. 26:59‑66• ⁵⁹And the chief priests and the elders and the whole sanhedrim sought false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death.
⁶⁰And they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. But at the last two false witnesses came forward
⁶¹and said, *He* said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and in three days build it.
⁶²And the high priest standing up said to him, Answerest thou nothing? What do these witness against thee?
⁶³But Jesus was silent. And the high priest answering said to him, I adjure thee by the living God that thou tell us if *thou* art the Christ the Son of God.
⁶⁴Jesus says to him, *Thou* hast said. Moreover, I say to you, From henceforth ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.
⁶⁵Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He has blasphemed: what need have we any more of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard the blasphemy.
⁶⁶What think ye? And they answering said, He is liable to the penalty of death. (Matt. 26:59‑66)

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Matt. 27:1‑2,25‑26• ¹And when it was morning all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus so that they might put him to death.
²And having bound him they led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
²⁵And all the people answering said, His blood be on us and on our children.
²⁶Then he released to them Barabbas; but Jesus, having scourged him, he delivered up that he might be crucified. (Matt. 27:1‑2,25‑26)

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Acts 7:52,59• ⁵²Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom *ye* have now become deliverers up and murderers!
⁵⁹And they stoned Stephen, praying, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. (Acts 7:52,59)

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Acts 23:12‑14• ¹²And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.
¹³And they were more than forty who had joined together in this oath;
¹⁴and they went to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have cursed ourselves with a curse to taste nothing until we kill Paul. (Acts 23:12‑14)

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James 2:6‑7• ⁶But *ye* have despised the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and do not *they* drag you before the tribunals?
⁷And do not *they* blaspheme the excellent name which has been called upon you? (James 2:6‑7)

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Ex. 23:2,6• ²Thou shalt not follow the multitude for evil; neither shalt thou answer in a cause, to go after the multitude to pervert judgment.
⁶Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy poor in his cause. (Ex. 23:2,6)

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Deut. 16:19• ¹⁹Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a bribe; for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. (Deut. 16:19)

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Ezek. 9:9• ⁹And he said 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, Jehovah hath forsaken the earth, and Jehovah seeth not. (Ezek. 9:9)

• He sees that there is no power amongst the people of God to deal with the evil. They fail to use the Word of God, for he has to admit that "the law is powerless, and justice doth never go forth." The wicked are in ascendancy, therefore any judgments at which they arrive are wrong or perverted. (“The Card on the Pavement”)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Therefore the law is powerless, and justiceb doth never go forth; for the wicked encompasseth the righteous; therefore judgment goeth forth perverted.

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Or "judgment."