HAB 01:01 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

HAB 01:02 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 01:03 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 01:04 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never

go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous;

therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

HAB 01:05 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 01:06 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 01:07 They [are] terrible and dreadful: their judgment and

their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

HAB 01:08 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 01:09 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 01:10 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 01:11 Then shall [his] mind change, and he shall pass over,

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

HAB 01:12 [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 01:13 [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 01:14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the

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

HAB 01:15 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 01:16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn

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

and their meat plenteous.

HAB 01:17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare

continually to slay the nations?

HAB 02:01 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,

and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall

answer when I am reproved.

HAB 02:02 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision,

and make [it] plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

HAB 02:03 For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at

the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for

it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

HAB 02:04 Behold, his soul [which] is lifted up is not upright

in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

HAB 02:05 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, [he is] a

proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as

hell, and [is] as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth

unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

HAB 02:06 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and

a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that

increaseth [that which is] not his! how long? and to him that

ladeth himself with thick clay!

HAB 02:07 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee,

and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties

unto them?

HAB 02:08 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the

remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood,

and [for] the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that

dwell therein.

HAB 02:09 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his

house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be

delivered from the power of evil!

HAB 02:10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off

many people, and hast sinned [against] thy soul.

HAB 02:11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam

out of the timber shall answer it.

HAB 02:12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and

stablisheth a city by iniquity!

HAB 02:13 Behold, [is it] not of the LORD of hosts that the

people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary

themselves for very vanity?

HAB 02:14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of

the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

HAB 02:15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that

puttest thy bottle to [him], and makest [him] drunken also, that

thou mayest look on their nakedness!

HAB 02:16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also,

and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right

hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing [shall be]

on thy glory.

HAB 02:17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the

spoil of beasts, [which] made them afraid, because of men's

blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all

that dwell therein.

HAB 02:18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof

hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that

the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

HAB 02:19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the

dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it [is] laid over

with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all in the

midst of it.

HAB 02:20 But the LORD [is] in his holy temple: let all the

earth keep silence before him.

HAB 03:01 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.

HAB 03:02 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, [and] was afraid: O

LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of

the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

HAB 03:03 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran.

 Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of

his praise.

HAB 03:04 And [his] brightness was as the light; he had horns

[coming] out of his hand: and there [was] the hiding of his

power.

HAB 03:05 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went

forth at his feet.

HAB 03:06 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove

asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were

scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways [are]

everlasting.

HAB 03:07 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: [and] the

curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

HAB 03:08 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? [was]

thine anger against the rivers? [was] thy wrath against the sea,

that thou didst ride upon thine horses [and] thy chariots of

salvation?

HAB 03:09 Thy bow was made quite naked, [according] to the oaths

of the tribes, [even thy] word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the

earth with rivers.

HAB 03:10 The mountains saw thee, [and] they trembled: the

overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice,

[and] lifted up his hands on high.

HAB 03:11 The sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation: at

the light of thine arrows they went, [and] at the shining of thy

glittering spear.

HAB 03:12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou

didst thresh the heathen in anger.

HAB 03:13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people,

[even] for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the

head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the

foundation unto the neck. Selah.

HAB 03:14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of

his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their

rejoicing [was] as to devour the poor secretly.

HAB 03:15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses,

[through] the heap of great waters.

HAB 03:16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at

the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in

myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh

up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.

HAB 03:17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither

[shall] fruit [be] in the vines; the labour of the olive shall

fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut

off from the fold, and [there shall be] no herd in the stalls:

HAB 03:18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God

of my salvation.

HAB 03:19 The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my

feet like hinds' [feet], and he will make me to walk upon mine

high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.









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