The document contains passages from the book of Habakkuk in the Bible where the prophet Habakkuk questions why God allows injustice in the world. It also contains quotes emphasizing having faith in God during difficult times and that God's ways are higher than human ways. The passages from Habakkuk describe a time when crops fail and animals provide no food, yet the prophet says he will still rejoice in God who gives him strength to endure hardship.

1. While I’m Waiting

2. HABAKKUK 3:17-19
17 Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the
vines, though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,

3. HABAKKUK 3:17-19
though there are no sheep in the
pen and no cattle in the stalls,
18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.

4. HABAKKUK 3:17-19
19 The Sovereign LORD is my
strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of
a deer, he enables me to tread
on the heights.

5. HABAKKUK 2:4
4 “See, the enemy is puffed up;
his desires are not upright—
but the righteous person will live
by his faithfulness—

6. Not a great faith we need,
but a great GOD.
J. HUDSON TAYLOR

7. HABAKKUK 1:1-2
1 The prophecy that Habakkuk the
prophet received.
2 How long, LORD, must I call for help,

8. HABAKKUK 1:1-2
but you do not listen?
Or cry out to you, “Violence!”
but you do not save?

9. HABAKKUK 1:3-4
3 Why do you make me look at
injustice? Why do you tolerate
wrongdoing? Destruction and
violence are before me;

10. HABAKKUK 1:3-4
there is strife, and conflict abounds.
4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and
justice never prevails. The wicked
hem in the righteous, so that justice
is perverted.

11. PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7
6 Do not be anxious about anything,
but in every situation, by prayer and
petition, with thanksgiving, present
your requests to God.

12. HABAKKUK 1:5-6
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.

13. HABAKKUK 1:5-6
6 I am raising up the Babylonians,
that ruthless and impetuous people
who sweep across the whole earth
to seize dwellings not their own.

14. HABAKKUK 1:13
13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you
cannot tolerate wrongdoing.
Why then do you tolerate the treacherous?
Why are you silent while the wicked swallow
up those more righteous than themselves?

15. Don’t judge God base on
your circumstances, but judge your
circumstances base on who God is.

16. ISAIAH 55:9
9 “As the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are my ways higher than
your ways and my thoughts than your
thoughts.

17. DEUTERONOMY 28:49-50
49 The LORD will bring a nation against
you from far away, from the ends of
the earth, like an eagle swooping
down, a nation whose language you

18. DEUTERONOMY 28:49-50
will not understand, 50 a fierce-
looking nation without respect
for the old or pity for the young.

19. HABAKKUK 2:1
1 I will stand at my watch and station
myself on the ramparts; I will look to
see what he will say to me, and what
answer I am to give to this complaint.

20. HABAKKUK 2:4
4 “See, the enemy is puffed up;
his desires are not upright—
but the righteous person will live
by his faithfulness—

21. HABAKKUK 3:1-2
1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet.
On shigionoth.
2 LORD, I have heard of your fame;
I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD.

22. HABAKKUK 3:1-2
Repeat them in our day,
in our time make them known;
in wrath remember mercy.

23. HABAKKUK 3:17-19
17 Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the
vines, though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,

24. HABAKKUK 3:17-19
though there are no sheep in the
pen and no cattle in the stalls,
18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.

25. HABAKKUK 3:17-19
19 The Sovereign LORD is my
strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of
a deer, he enables me to tread
on the heights.