Habakkuk
Chapter One
1 ¶ The burden which
the prophet Habakkuk saw.
2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, And You will not hear? Even cry out to You,
"Violence!" And You will not save.
3 Why do You show me iniquity, And cause me to see trouble? For plundering and
violence are before me; There is strife, and contention arises.
4 Therefore the law is powerless, And justice never goes forth. For the wicked
surround the righteous; Therefore perverse judgment proceeds.
5 ¶ "Look among the nations and watch-Be utterly astounded! For I
will work a work in your days Which you would not believe, though it were told
you.
6 For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, A bitter and hasty nation Which
marches through the breadth of the earth, To possess dwelling places that are
not theirs.
7 They are terrible and dreadful; Their judgment and their dignity proceed from
themselves.
8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, And more fierce than evening
wolves. Their chargers charge ahead; Their cavalry comes from afar; They fly
as the eagle that hastens to eat.
9 "They all come for violence; Their faces are set like the east wind.
They gather captives like sand.
10 They scoff at kings, And princes are scorned by them. They deride every stronghold,
For they heap up earthen mounds and seize it.
11 Then his mind changes, and he transgresses; He commits offense, Ascribing
this power to his god."
12 ¶ Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall
not die. O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O Rock, You have marked
them for correction.
13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, And cannot look on wickedness.
Why do You look on those who deal treacherously, And hold Your tongue when the
wicked devours A person more rightous than he?
14 Why do You make men like fish of the sea, Like creeping things that have
no ruler over them?
15 They take up all of them with a hook, They catch them in their net, And gather
them in their dragnet. Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore they sacrifice to their net, And burn incense to their dragnet;
Because by them their share is sumptuous And their food plentiful.
17 Shall they therefore empty their net, And continue to slay nations without
pity?
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