5Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.


In Context

2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out to thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

3 Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for devastation and violence are before me: and there are that raise strife and contention.

4 Therefore the law is slackened, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth encompass the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.

6 For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places that are not theirs.

7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed from themselves.

Habakkuk 1:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:5Behold 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. ]

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:5"Look at the nations and watch- and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:5See ye among the nations, and behold, and wonder marvellously; for I work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be declared to you.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:5Behold ye among the nations, and see: wonder, and be astonished: for a work is done in your days, which no man will believe when it shall be told.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:5Behold 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:5Behold ye among the nations, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I work a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:5|Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:5Look 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:5Behold you among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which you will not believe, though it be told you.