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- HABAKKUK:
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- CHAPTER 1
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- 1. The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- 4. Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go
- forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore
- wrong judgment proceedeth.
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- 5. Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder
- marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will not
- believe, though it be told you.
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- 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 their's.
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- 7. They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their
- dignity shall proceed of themselves.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 11. Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and
- offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
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- 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.
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- 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?
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- 14. And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping
- things, that have no ruler over them?
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- 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.
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- 16. Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense
- unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their
- meat plenteous.
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- 17. Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare
- continually to slay the nations?
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- CHAPTER 2
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- 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.
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- 2. And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and
- make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
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- 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.
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- 4. Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him:
- but the just shall live by his faith.
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- 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:
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- 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!
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- 10. Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many
- people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
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- 11. For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of
- the timber shall answer it.
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- 12. Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth
- a city by iniquity!
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- 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?
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- 14. For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the
- glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 20. But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep
- silence before him.
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- CHAPTER 3
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- 1. A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 4. And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out
- of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
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- 5. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth
- at his feet.
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- 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.
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- 7. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of
- the land of Midian did tremble.
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 12. Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst
- thresh the heathen in anger.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 15. Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through
- the heap of great waters.
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- 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.
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- 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:
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- 18. Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my
- salvation.
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- 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.
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