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| Chapter 1
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1 |
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. |
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! |
3 | Why
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. |
4
| Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth:
for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong
judgment proceedeth. |
5 |
Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder
marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe,
though it be told you.
Acts 13:41
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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 their's. |
7 | They
are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall
proceed of themselves. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
16 |
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their
drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat
plenteous. |
17 | Shall they therefore empty their net,
and not spare continually to slay the nations? |
