Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Habakkuk 1:13

“Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?”

Habakkuk 1:13 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Habakkuk 1:13, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Habakkuk 1. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

12 Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Psalms 5:4For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
  • Psalms 34:15The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
  • Jeremiah 12:1Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very trea…
  • Habakkuk 1:3Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
  • Proverbs 31:8Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
  • Psalms 50:3Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
  • 2 Samuel 4:11How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
  • Psalms 10:15Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
  • 1 Peter 1:15But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
  • Psalms 37:32The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
  • Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined t…
  • Psalms 56:1Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
  • Psalms 35:22This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
  • Psalms 37:12The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

More to meet God in Habakkuk

Habakkuk 3:19Habakkuk 1:4Habakkuk 3:2Habakkuk 1:12Habakkuk 3:10Habakkuk 2:5Habakkuk 2:8Habakkuk 3:6Habakkuk 3:3Habakkuk 3:18Habakkuk 2:3Habakkuk 2:18

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.