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Chapter 1
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The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. |
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O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear!
even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not
save! |
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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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Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never
go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous;
therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. |
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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. |
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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. |
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They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and
their dignity shall proceed of themselves. |
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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. |
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They shall come all for violence: their faces shall
sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity
as the sand. |
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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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Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over,
and offend, imputing this his power unto his god. |
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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. |
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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? |
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And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping
things, that have no ruler over them? |
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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. |
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Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense
unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat,
and their meat plenteous. |
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Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare
continually to slay the nations? |
