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Habakkuk 1
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.
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?
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