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Habakkuk
The Book of Habakkuk
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Hab.1
[1]
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
[2] O LORD,
how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee
of violence, and thou wilt not save!
[3] 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.
[4] Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment
doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous;
therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
[5] 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.
[6] 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.
[7] They
are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall
proceed of themselves.
[8] 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.
[9]
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the
east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
[10]
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.
[11] Then shall his mind change, and he
shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his
god.
[12] 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.
[13] 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?
[14] And
makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that
have no ruler over them?
[15] 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.
[16] Therefore
they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag;
because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
[17]
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to
slay the nations?
Hab.2
[1]
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.
[2] And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the
vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth
it.
[3] 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.
[4] Behold,
his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall
live by his faith.
[5] 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:
[6]
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!
[7] Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite
thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties
unto them?
[8] 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.
[9] 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!
[10] Thou hast consulted
shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned
against thy soul.
[11] For the stone shall cry out of the
wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
[12]
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by
iniquity!
[13] 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?
[14] For the earth shall be
filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters
cover the sea.
[15] 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!
[16] 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.
[17] 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.
[18]
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?
[19] 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.
[20] But the LORD is in
his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Hab.3
[1]
A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] And his brightness
was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was
the hiding of his power.
[5] Before him went the
pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
[6]
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.
[7] I saw the
tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian
did tremble.
[8] 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?
[9] Thy bow was made quite naked, according to
the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the
earth with rivers.
[10] 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.
[11] 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.
[12]
Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh
the heathen in anger.
[13] 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.
[14] 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.
[15] Thou didst walk through the sea with thine
horses, through the heap of great waters.
[16] 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.
[17] 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:
[18]
Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my
salvation.
[19] 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.