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.


In Context

2 Till when, O Jehovah, have I cried, And Thou dost not hear? I cry unto Thee — 'Violence,' and Thou dost not save.

3 Why dost Thou shew me iniquity, And perversity dost cause to behold? And spoiling and violence are before me, And there is strife, and contention doth lift itself up,

4 Therefore doth law cease, And judgment doth not go forth for ever, For the wicked is compassing the righteous, Therefore wrong judgment goeth forth.

5 Look 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.

6 For, lo, I am raising up the Chaldeans, The bitter and hasty nation, That is going to the broad places of earth, To occupy tabernacles not its own.

7 Terrible and fearful it is, From itself its judgment and its excellency go forth.

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 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 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.