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Habakkuk  


1 : 1 The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw.
1 : 2 OLord,how long shall I cry for help,and you will not hear?Or cry to youViolence!and you will not save?
1 : 3 Why do you make me see iniquity,and why do you idly look at wrong?Destructionand violence are before me;strife and contention arise.
1 : 4 So the law is paralyzed,and justice never goes forth.For the wicked surround the righteous;so justice goes forth perverted.
1 : 5 Look among the nations, and see;wonder and be astounded.For I am doing a work in your daysthat you would not believe if told.
1 : 6 For behold,I am raising up the Chaldeans,that bitter and hasty nation,who march through the breadth of the earth,to seize dwellings not their own.
1 : 7 They are dreaded and fearsome;their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
1 : 8 Their horses are swifter than leopards,more fierce thanthe evening wolves;their horsemen press proudly on.Their horsemen come from afar;they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
1 : 9 They all comefor violence,all their faces forward.They gather captiveslike sand.
1 : 10 At kings they scoff,and at rulers they laugh.They laugh at every fortress,forthey pile up earth and take it.
1 : 11 Then they sweep by like the wind and go on,guilty men,whose own might is their god!
1 : 12 Are you notfrom everlasting,OLordmy God, my Holy One?We shall not die.OLord,you have ordained them as a judgment,and you, ORock, have established them for reproof.
1 : 13 You who areof purer eyes than to see eviland cannot look at wrong,why do you idly look at traitorsandremain silent when the wicked swallows upthe man more righteous than he?
1 : 14 You make mankind like the fish of the sea,like crawling things that have no ruler.
1 : 15 Hebrings all of them upwith a hook;he drags them out with his net;he gathers them in his dragnet;so he rejoices and is glad.
1 : 16 Therefore he sacrifices to his netand makes offerings to his dragnet;for by them he lives in luxury,and his food is rich.
1 : 17 Is he then to keep on emptying his netand mercilessly killing nations forever?