en_tn_condensed/hab/01/04.md

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the law is weakened

Habakkuk speaks of people not obeying or enforcing the law as if they had made the law weak and unable to act. AT: "no one enforces the law" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)

the wicked surround the righteous

Habakkuk speaks of wicked people causing righteous people to suffer injustice as if the wicked people surrounded the righteous people. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-nominaladj)

false justice goes out

Habakkuk speaks of judges giving decisions that they say are just but that are not as if "false justice" were going out to the people. AT: "judges give verdicts that are not just" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)