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.


In Context

2 Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you |Violence!| and will you not save?

3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.

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.

6 For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

7 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity 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 Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:5Behold 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.

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.