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Habacuc 1:4
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Por lo cual la ley es debilitada, y el juicio no sale verdadero: por cuanto el imp�o asedia al justo, por eso sale torcido el juicio.
Por lo cual la ley es debilitada, y el juicio no sale verdadero; por cuanto el imp�o asedia al justo, por eso sale torcido el juicio.
Por lo cual la ley es debilitada, y el juicio no sale verdadero; por cuanto el imp�o asedia al justo, por eso sale torcido el juicio.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the law: Psalms 11:3, Psalms 119:126, Mark 7:9, Romans 3:31
for: 1 Kings 21:13, Job 21:7, Psalms 22:16, Psalms 58:1, Psalms 58:2, Psalms 59:2, Psalms 59:4, Psalms 82:1-5, Psalms 94:3, Psalms 94:20, Psalms 94:21, Isaiah 1:21-23, Isaiah 59:2-8, Isaiah 59:13-15, Jeremiah 5:27-29, Jeremiah 12:1, Jeremiah 12:6, Jeremiah 26:8, Jeremiah 26:21-23, Jeremiah 37:14-16, Jeremiah 38:4-6, Ezekiel 22:25-30, Hosea 10:4, Amos 5:7, Amos 5:12, Micah 2:1, Micah 2:2, Micah 3:1-3, Micah 7:2-4, Matthew 23:34-36, Matthew 26:59-66, Matthew 27:1, Matthew 27:2, Matthew 27:25, Matthew 27:26, Acts 7:52, Acts 7:59, Acts 23:12-14, James 2:6, James 2:7
wrong: or, wrested, Exodus 23:2, Exodus 23:6, Deuteronomy 16:19, Ezekiel 9:9
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 25:1 - General 2 Samuel 4:11 - when wicked Isaiah 59:14 - General Amos 6:12 - for Habakkuk 1:13 - the wicked John 8:15 - judge Acts 8:33 - judgment 2 Peter 3:16 - wrest
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Therefore the law is slacked,.... Is not put into execution against offenders: the civil magistrates, whose office it is to do justice according to law, are dilatory, and do not proceed with vigour and spirit against the transgressors of it, and in favour of honest and good men oppressed: or "it intermits" r, or is "intermitted"; it is like a man whose pulse beats low, and is scarce perceived, which is a sign that he is not in good health as the body politic is not, when the law, which is the soul of it, is not suffered to take place, and do its office. So the Targum,
"the law languishes;''
loses its force and vigour, and is ready to expire; which is a sad symptom of the bad estate of a commonwealth.
And judgment doth never go forth; at least not right, to the justifying of the righteous, acquitting the innocent, and giving the cause on the right side; condemning the wicked, and punishing offenders as their crime deserves: it never appears as it should do; it is either not done at all, or done badly and perversely:
for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; to hurt him or ensnare him, and by frauds and wicked artifices, and false witnesses, to carry a cause against him:
therefore wrong judgment proceedeth; the cause is given on the wrong side, against a good man, and for a wicked man; all these things the prophet saw with grief, and complained of to the Lord, from whom he has an answer in the following words:
r תפוג "intermittitur", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Burkius פוג "est, animi deliquium pati", Tarnovius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Therefore - i. e., Because God seemed not to awake to avenge His own cause, people promised themselves that they might sin on with impunity. Sin produces sin, and wrong produces wrong; it spreads like an infectious disease, propagating itself, and each, to whom it reaches, adds to its poison. At last, it reached those also, who should be in God’s stead to restrain it. The divine law itself is silenced, by the power of the wicked, by the sin of the judge, the hopelessness of all. When all around is evil, even those not yet lost are tempted to think; “Why should I be other than they? What evil befalls them? Why stand alone?” Even a Psalmist Psalms 73:15, Psalms 73:12-13 speaks as if tempted to “speak even as they. These are the ungodly who prosper in the world; they increase in riches; verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency;” and Solomon Ecclesiastes 8:11, “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”
The law is slacked - literally “is chilled” (as we say, “is paralyzed”), through lack of the fire of love. This is what our Lord says Matthew 24:12, Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. The divine law, the source of all right, being chilled in people’s hearts, “judgment,” i. e., the sentence of human justice, as conformed to divine justice, “doth never go forth.” Human sense of right is powerless, when there is not the love of God’s law. It seems always ready to act, but always falls short, like an arrow from an unstrung bow. The man seems always about to do right; he judges, sees, aright - all but does it - yet, at last, he always fails. “It goes not forth. The children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth” Isaiah 37:3.
For the wicked doth compass about the righteous, laying snares for him, as the Jews for our Lord; evil is too strong for a weak will to do right, and overbears it. Pilate sought in many ways, how he might deliver Jesus, yet he finally did deliver Christ into their hands.
Therefore wrong judgment proceedeth - literally, “judgment proceedeth wrested.” He had said, “it never goes forth;” never, that is, in its true character; for, when it does “go forth,” it is distorted. Dion.: “For gifts or favor or fear or hate the guiltless are condemned trod the guilty acquitted, as saith the Psalmist Psalms 82:2, ‘How long will ye judge unjustly and accept the persons of the ungodly?’” Theoph.: “‘Judgment goes forth perverted’ in the seat of man’s judgment (the soul), when, bribed by the pleasures of sense, it leans to the side of things seen, and the ungodly one, the rebel angel, besets and overpowers him who has the sense of right; for it is right that things seen should give way to things unseen 2 Corinthians 4:18; ‘for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.’” Why then all this? And how long? Why does God bring it before him and He who “is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, behold grievance,” which His Holy Eyes could not endure? Neither the unseen presence of God nor the mission of the prophet checks. If he rebukes, no one hearkened; if he intercedes for sinners, or against sin, God made as though He would not hear. God answers that, though to man’s impatience the time seems long, judgment shall come, and that, suddenly and speedily. While the righteous is enquiring, “how long?” and the wicked is saying Matthew 24:48, “My Lord delayeth His coming,” He is come, and seen in the midst of them.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 4. The law is slacked — They pay no attention to it; it has lost all its vigour, its restraining and correcting power, it is not executed; right judgment is never pronounced; and the poor righteous man complains in vain that he is grievously oppressed by the wicked, and by those in power and authority. That the utmost depravity prevailed in the land of Judah is evident from these verses; and can we wonder, then, that God poured out such signal judgments upon them? When judgment doth not proceed from the seat of judgment upon earth, it will infallibly go forth from the throne of judgment in heaven.
