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1:1 The burden that Habakkuk the prophet hath seen:
1:2 Till when, O Jehovah, have I cried, And Thou dost not hear?
 I cry unto Thee -- `Violence,' and Thou dost not save.
1:3 Why dost Thou shew me iniquity, And perversity dost cause to
 behold? And spoiling and violence [are] before me, And there is
 strife, and contention doth lift [itself] up,
1:4 Therefore doth law cease, And judgment doth not go forth for
 ever, For the wicked is compassing the righteous, Therefore
 wrong judgment goeth forth.
1:5 Look ye on nations, and behold and marvel greatly. For a
 work He is working in your days, Ye do not believe though it is
 declared.
1:6 For, lo, I am raising up the Chaldeans, The bitter and hasty
 nation, That is going to the broad places of earth, To occupy
 tabernacles not its own.
1:7 Terrible and fearful it [is], From itself its judgment and
 its excellency go forth.
1:8 Swifter than leopards have been its horses, And sharper than
 evening wolves, And increased have its horsemen, Even its
 horsemen from afar come in, They fly as an eagle, hasting to
 consume.
1:9 Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing
 up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.
1:10 And at kings it doth scoff, And princes [are] a laughter to
 it, At every fenced place it doth laugh, And it heapeth up
 dust, and captureth it.
1:11 Then passed on hath the spirit, Yea, he doth transgress,
 And doth ascribe this his power to his god.
1:12 Art not Thou of old, O Jehovah, my God, my Holy One? We do
 not die, O Jehovah, For judgment Thou hast appointed it, And,
 O Rock, for reproof Thou hast founded it.
1:13 Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness
 Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou
 keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous
 than he,
1:14 And Thou makest man as fishes of the sea, As a creeping
 thing -- none ruling over him.
1:15 Each of them with a hook he hath brought up, He doth catch
 it in his net, and gathereth it in his drag, Therefore he doth
 joy and rejoice.
1:16 Therefore he doth sacrifice to his net, And doth make
 perfume to his drag, For by them [is] his portion fertile, and
 his food fat.
1:17 Doth he therefore empty his net, And continually to slay
 nations spare not?
2:1 On my charge I stand, and I station myself on a bulwark, and
 I watch to see what He doth speak against me, and what I do
 reply to my reproof.
2:2 And Jehovah answereth me and saith: `Write a vision, and
 explain on the tables, That he may run who is reading it.
2:3 For yet the vision [is] for a season, And it breatheth for
 the end, and doth not lie, If it tarry, wait for it, For surely
 it cometh, it is not late.
2:4 Lo, a presumptuous one! Not upright is his soul within him,
 And the righteous by his stedfastness liveth.
2:5 And also, because the wine [is] treacherous, A man is
 haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol
 his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth
 gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto
 itself all the peoples,
2:6 Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken
 up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo [to] him
 who is multiplying [what is] not his? Till when also is he
 multiplying to himself heavy pledges?
2:7 Do not thy usurers instantly rise up, And those shaking thee
 awake up, And thou hast been for a spoil to them?
2:8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, Spoil thee do all
 the remnant of the peoples, Because of man's blood, and of
 violence [to] the land, [To] the city, and [to] all dwelling in
 it.
2:9 Wo [to] him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set
 on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,
2:10 Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut
 off many peoples, and sinful [is] thy soul.
2:11 For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from
 the wood answereth it.
2:12 Wo [to] him who is building a city by blood, And
 establishing a city by iniquity.
2:13 Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are
 fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?
2:14 For full is the earth of the knowledge of the honour of
 Jehovah, As waters cover [the bottom of] a sea.
2:15 Wo [to] him who is giving drink to his neighbour, Pouring
 out thy bottle, and also making drunk, In order to look on
 their nakedness.
2:16 Thou hast been filled -- shame without honour, Drink thou
 also, and be uncircumcised, Turn round unto thee doth the cup
 of the right hand of Jehovah, And shameful spewing [is] on
 thine honour.
2:17 For violence [to] Lebanon doth cover thee, And spoil of
 beasts doth affright them, Because of man's blood, and of
 violence [to] the land, [To] the city, and [to] all dwelling in
 it.
2:18 What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath
 graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That
 trusted hath the former on his own formation -- to make dumb
 idols?
2:19 Wo [to] him who is saying to wood, `Awake,' `Stir up,' to a
 dumb stone, It a teacher! lo, it is overlaid -- gold and
 silver, And there is no spirit in its midst.
2:20 And Jehovah [is] in His holy temple, Be silent before Him,
 all the earth!
3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet concerning erring ones:
3:2 O Jehovah, I heard thy report, I have been afraid, O
 Jehovah, Thy work! in midst of years revive it, In the midst of
 years Thou makest known In anger Thou dost remember mercy.
3:3 God from Teman doth come, The Holy One from mount Paran.
 Pause! Covered the heavens hath His majesty, And His praise
 hath filled the earth.
3:4 And the brightness is as the light, He hath rays out of His
 hand, And there -- the hiding of His strength.
3:5 Before Him goeth pestilence, And a burning flame goeth forth
 at His feet.
3:6 He hath stood, and He measureth earth, He hath seen, and He
 shaketh off nations, And scatter themselves do mountains of
 antiquity, Bowed have the hills of old, The ways of old [are]
 His.
3:7 Under sorrow I have seen tents of Cushan, Tremble do
 curtains of the land of Midian.
3:8 Against rivers hath Jehovah been wroth? Against rivers [is]
 Thine anger? Against the sea [is] Thy wrath? For Thou dost ride
 on Thy horses -- Thy chariots of salvation?
3:9 Utterly naked Thou dost make Thy bow, Sworn are the tribes
 -- saying, `Pause!' [With] rivers Thou dost cleave the earth.
3:10 Seen thee -- pained are mountains, An inundation of waters
 hath passed over, Given forth hath the deep its voice, High its
 hands it hath lifted up.
3:11 Sun -- moon -- hath stood -- a habitation, At the light
 thine arrows go on, At the brightness, the glittering of thy
 spear.
3:12 In indignation Thou dost tread earth, In anger Thou dost
 thresh nations.
3:13 Thou hast gone forth for the salvation of Thy people, For
 salvation with Thine anointed, Thou hast smitten the head of
 the house of the wicked, Laying bare the foundation unto the
 neck. Pause!
3:14 Thou hast pierced with his staves the head of his leaders,
 They are tempestuous to scatter me, Their exultation [is] as to
 consume the poor in secret.
3:15 Thou hast proceeded through the sea with Thy horses -- the
 clay of many waters.
3:16 I have heard, and my belly trembleth, At the noise have my
 lips quivered, Rottenness doth come into my bones, And in my
 place I do tremble, That I rest for a day of distress, At the
 coming up of the people, he overcometh it.
3:17 Though the fig-tree doth not flourish, And there is no
 produce among vines, Failed hath the work of the olive, And
 fields have not yielded food, Cut off from the fold hath been
 the flock, And there is no herd in the stalls.
3:18 Yet I, in Jehovah I exult, I do joy in the God of my
 salvation.
3:19 Jehovah the Lord [is] my strength, And He doth make my feet
 like hinds, And on my high-places causeth me to tread. To the
 overseer with my stringed instruments!