| 1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. 2 O Jehovah, how
long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee of violence,
and thou wilt not save. 3 Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon
perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is
strife, and contention riseth up. 4 Therefore the law is slacked, and
justice doth never go forth; for the wicked doth compass about the righteous;
therefore justice goeth forth perverted. 5 Behold ye among the nations,
and look, and wonder marvellously; for I am working a work in your days,
which ye will not believe though it be told you. 6 For, lo, I raise up the
Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march 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 are more
fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen press proudly on: yea,
their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.
9 They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards;
and they gather captives as the sand. 10 Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and
princes are a derision unto him; he derideth every stronghold; for he heapeth
up dust, and taketh it. 11 Then shall he sweep by as a wind, and
shall pass over, and be guilty, even he whose might is his god.
12 Art not thou from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? we shall
not die. O Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgment; and thou, O Rock,
hast established him for correction. 13 Thou that art of purer eyes than
to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest
thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked
swalloweth up 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 He taketh up all of them with the angle, he catcheth them in his net,
and gathereth them in his drag: therefore he rejoiceth and is glad.
16 Therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his
drag; because by them his portion is fat, and his food plenteous. 17 Shall
he therefore empty his net, and spare not to slay the nations continually?
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