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Habakkuk 1

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1The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. ✦ 2O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! ✦ 3Why 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. ✦ 4Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. ✦ 5Behold 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. ✦ 6For, 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. ✦ 7They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. ✦ 8Their 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. ✦ 9They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. ✦ 10And 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. ✦ 11Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god. ✦ 12Art 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. ✦ 13Thou 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? ✦ 14And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? ✦ 15They 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. ✦ 16Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. ✦ 17Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations? ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Jer 4 ·7Jer 5 ·6Jer 25 ·5Jer 52 ·4Hab 1 ·42 Chr 36 ·4Hab 2 ·3Dan 5 ·3

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