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1:1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
1:2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even
cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt
not save!
1:3 Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to
behold
grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me:
and there
are that raise up strife and contention.
1:4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go
forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore
wrong judgment proceedeth.
1:5 Behold 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.
1:6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and
hasty
nation, which
shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the
dwellingplaces
that are not theirs.
1:7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment
and
their dignity
shall proceed of themselves.
1:8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are
more fierce
than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread
themselves, and
their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that
hasteth to eat.
1:9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall
sup up as the
east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the
sand.
1:10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall
be a scorn
unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they
shall heap dust,
and take it.
1:11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over,
and
offend,
imputing this his power unto his god.
1:12 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.
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?
1:14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping
things, that
have no ruler over them?
1:15 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.
1:16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense
unto their
drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their
meat
plenteous.
1:17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare
continually
to slay
the nations?
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2:1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and
will watch to
see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I
am reproved.
2:2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and
make it
plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at
the
end it shall
speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because
it will surely
come, it will not tarry.
2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in
him:
but the
just shall live by his faith.
2:5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a
proud
man, neither
keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is
as death, and
cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and
heapeth unto
him all people:
2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a
taunting
proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that
which is
not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself
with thick clay!
2:7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and
awake that
shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
2:8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of
the people
shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the
violence
of the
land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
2:9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house,
that he may
set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power
of evil!
2:10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many
people, and
hast sinned against thy soul.
2:11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out
of the timber
shall answer it.
2:12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth
a city by
iniquity!
2:13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the
people
shall labour
in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for
very vanity?
2:14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the
glory of the
LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
2:15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest
thy bottle
to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou
mayest look
on their
nakedness!
2:16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also,
and let thy
foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right hand
shall be turned
unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy
glory.
2:17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil
of beasts,
which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for
the
violence of
the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
2:18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath
graven it;
the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his
work
trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
2:19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb
stone, Arise,
it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold
and
silver, and there
is no breath at all in the midst of it.
2:20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all
the
earth keep silence
before him.
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3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
3:2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was
afraid:
O LORD, revive thy
work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make
known; in
wrath remember mercy.
3:3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran.
Selah. His
glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his
praise.
3:4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming
out of his
hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
3:5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth
at his
feet.
3:6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove
asunder the
nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the
perpetual
hills
did bow: his ways are everlasting.
3:7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and
the
curtains of the land
of Midian did tremble.
3:8 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was
thine
anger against
the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that
thou
didst ride upon
thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
3:9 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths
of
the tribes,
even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the
earth
with rivers.
3:10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the
overflowing
of the
water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and
lifted
up his hands on
high.
3:11 The sun and moon stood still in their
habitation:
at the light of
thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy
glittering
spear.
3:12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst
thresh the
heathen in anger.
3:13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even
for
salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of
the house of
the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck.
Selah.
3:14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his
villages:
they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their
rejoicing was as to
devour the poor secretly.
3:15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through
the heap
of great waters.
3:16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the
voice:
rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself,
that I might
rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the
people, he will
invade them with his troops.
3:17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall
fruit be in
the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields
shall yield
no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there
shall be no
herd in the stalls:
3:18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of
my salvation.
3:19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my
feet
like hinds'
feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high
places.
To the chief
singer on my stringed instruments.
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