HAB-1:1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

HAB-1:2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear!

[even] cry out unto thee [of] violence, and thou wilt not save!

HAB-1:3 Why dost thou 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.

HAB-1:4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go

forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous;

therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

HAB-1:5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder

marvellously: for [I] will work a work in your days, [which] ye

will not believe, though it be told [you].

HAB-1:6 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 theirs.

HAB-1:7 They [are] terrible and dreadful: their judgment and

their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

HAB-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] hasteth to eat.

HAB-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.

HAB-1:10 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.

HAB-1:11 Then shall [his] mind change, and he shall pass over,

and offend, [imputing] this his power unto his god.

HAB-1:12 [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.

HAB-1:13 [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?

HAB-1:14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the

creeping things, [that have] no ruler over them?

HAB-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.

HAB-1:16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn

incense unto their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat,

and their meat plenteous.

HAB-1:17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare

continually to slay the nations? 

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