11  The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see .

 12  O LORD how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear even cry 
out unto thee of violence and thou wilt not save .

 13  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 .

 14  Therefore the law is slacked and judgment doth never go 
forth for the wicked doth compass about the righteous therefore 
wrong judgment proceedeth .

 15  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 .

 16  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 .

 17  They are terrible and dreadful their judgment and their 
dignity shall proceed of themselves .

 18  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 .

 19  They shall come all for violence their faces shall sup up 
as the east wind and they shall gather the captivity as the sand 
.

 110  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 .

 111  Then shall his mind change and he shall pass over and 
offend imputing this his power unto his god .

 112  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 .

 113  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 .

 114  And makest men as the fishes of the sea as the creeping 
things that have no ruler over them .

 115  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 .

 116  Therefore they sacrifice unto their net and burn incense 
unto their drag because by them their portion is fat and their 
meat plenteous .

 117  Shall they therefore empty their net and not spare 
continually to slay the nations .

* 21  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 .

 22  And the LORD answered me and said Write the vision and make 
it plain upon tables that he may run that readeth it .

 23  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 .

 24  Behold his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him 
but the just shall live by his faith .

 25  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 .

 26  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 .

 27  Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee and 
awake that shall vex thee and thou shalt be for booties unto 
them .

 28  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 .

 29  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 .

 210  Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many 
people and hast sinned against thy soul .

 211  For the stone shall cry out of the wall and the beam out 
of the timber shall answer it .

 212  Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood and stablisheth 
a city by iniquity .

 213  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 .

 214  For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the 
glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea .

 215  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 .

 216  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 .

 217  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 .

 218  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 .

 219  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 .

 220  But the LORD is in his holy temple let all the earth keep 
silence before him .

* 31  A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth .

 32  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 .

 33  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 .

 34  And his brightness was as the light he had horns coming out 
of his hand and there was the hiding of his power .

 35  Before him went the pestilence and burning coals went forth 
at his feet .

 36  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 .

 37  I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction and the curtains of 
the land of Midian did tremble .

 38  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 .

 39  Thy bow was made quite naked according to the oaths of the 
tribes even thy word Selah Thou didst cleave the earth with 
rivers .

 310  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 .

 311  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 .

 312  Thou didst march through the land in indignation thou 
didst thresh the heathen in anger .

 313  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 .

 314  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 .

 315  Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses through 
the heap of great waters .

 316  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 .

 317  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  .

 318  Yet I will rejoice in the LORD I will joy in the God of my 
salvation .

 319  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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