1:1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
1:2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out to
you of violence, and you will not save!
1:3 Why do you 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 does never go forth: for
the wicked does compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceeds.
1:5 Behold you among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for
I will work a work in your days which you will not believe, though it be
told you.
1:6 For, see, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which
shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places
that are not their's.
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 hastens
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
to 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 to his god.
1:12 Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall
not die. O LORD, you have ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God,
you have established them for correction.
1:13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look on iniquity:
why look you on them that deal treacherously, and hold your tongue when
the wicked devours the man that is more righteous than he?
1:14 And make 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 to their net, and burn incense to 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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Habakkuk 2
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2:1 I will stand on my watch, and set me on the tower, and will watch to
see what he will say to 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
on tables, that he may run that reads 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 Yes also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither
keeps at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot
be satisfied, but gathers to him all nations, and heaps to 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 increases that which is not his!
how long? and to him that lades himself with thick clay!
2:7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite you, and awake that
shall vex you, and you shall be for booties to them?
2:8 Because you have spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people
shall spoil you; 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 covets 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 You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people,
and have sinned against your 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 builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by
iniquity!
2:13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor
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 to him that gives his neighbor drink, that put your bottle to
him, and make him drunken also, that you may look on their nakedness!
2:16 You are filled with shame for glory: drink you also, and let your
foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand shall be turned
to you, and shameful spewing shall be on your glory.
2:17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you, 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 profits the graven image that the maker thereof has graven it;
the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts
therein, to make dumb idols?
2:19 Woe to him that said 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 middle of it.
2:20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence
before him.
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Habakkuk 3
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3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet on Shigionoth.
3:2 O LORD, I have heard your speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive your
work in the middle of the years, in the middle 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 your anger against
the rivers? was your wrath against the sea, that you did ride on your horses
and your chariots of salvation?
3:9 Your bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes,
even your word. Selah. You did split the earth with rivers.
3:10 The mountains saw you, 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
your arrows they went, and at the shining of your glittering spear.
3:12 You did march through the land in indignation, you did thresh the
heathen in anger.
3:13 You went forth for the salvation of your people, even for salvation
with your anointed; you wounded the head out of the house of the wicked,
by discovering the foundation to the neck. Selah.
3:14 You did 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 You did walk through the sea with your 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 comes up to 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 labor 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 on my high places. To the chief singer
on my stringed instruments.