Bible, King James Version
Habakkuk
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?
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