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