| 001:001
| The
burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. |
| 001:002 | O
LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee
of violence, and thou wilt not save! |
| 001:003 | 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.
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| 001:004 | Therefore
the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass
about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. |
| 001:005 | 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. |
| 001:006 | 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. |
| 001:007 | They
are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of
themselves. |
| 001:008 | 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. |
| 001:009 | They
shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and
they shall gather the captivity as the sand. |
| 001:010 | 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.
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| 001:011 | Then
shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his
power unto his god. |
| 001:012 | 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. |
| 001:013 | 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? |
| 001:014 | And
makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler
over them? |
| 001:015 | 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. |
| 001:016 | Therefore
they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by
them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. |
| 001:017 | Shall
they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
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| 002:001
| 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. | | 002:002 | And
the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables,
that he may run that readeth it. |
| 002:003 | 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. |
| 002:004 | Behold,
his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live
by his faith. |
| 002:005 | 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: |
| 002:006 | 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! |
| 002:007 | Shall
they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee,
and thou shalt be for booties unto them? |
| 002:008 | 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. |
| 002:009 | 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! |
| 002:010 | Thou
hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned
against thy soul. |
| 002:011 | For
the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer
it. |
| 002:012 | Woe
to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
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| 002:013 | 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? |
| 002:014 | For
the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the
waters cover the sea. |
| 002:015 | 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! |
| 002:016 | 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. |
| 002:017 | 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. |
| 002:018 | 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? |
| 002:019 | 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. |
| 002:020 | But
the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
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| 003:001
| A
prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. | | 003:002 | 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. |
| 003:003 | 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. |
| 003:004 | And
his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there
was the hiding of his power. |
| 003:005 | Before
him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. |
| 003:006 | 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. |
| 003:007 | I
saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian
did tremble. |
| 003:008 | 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? |
| 003:009 | Thy
bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word.
Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. |
| 003:010 | 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. |
| 003:011 | 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. |
| 003:012 | Thou
didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen
in anger. |
| 003:013 | 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. |
| 003:014 | 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.
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| 003:015 | Thou
didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.
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| 003:016 | 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. |
| 003:017 | 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: |
| 003:018 | Yet
I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. |
| 003:019 | 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. |