Habakkuk 1:4 meaning and explanation

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

Habakkuk 1:4, Berean Standard Bible

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Habakkuk is speaking to God in the first of two complaints that open the book. He looks at Judah, where the law of Moses should have ordered public life, and sees it paralyzed, unable to act.

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