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Habacuc
chapter 1
1
The burden
that Habacuc the prophet saw.
2 How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou wilt not
hear? shall I cry out to thee suffering violence, and thou wilt not save?
3 Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and grievance, to see
rapine and injustice before me? and there is a judgment, but opposition is more
powerful.
4 Therefore the law is torn in pieces, and judgment
cometh not to the end: because the wicked prevaileth against the just,
therefore wrong judgment goeth forth.
5 Behold ye among the nations, and see: wonder, and be
astonished: for a work is done in your days, which no man will believe when it
shall be told.
6 For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter
and swift nation, marching upon the breadth of the earth, to possess the
dwelling places that are not their own.
7 They are dreadful, and terrible: from themselves
shall their judgment, and their burden proceed.
8 Their horses are lighter than leopards, and swifter
than evening wolves; and their horsemen shall be spread abroad: for their
horsemen shall come from afar, they shall fly as an eagle that maketh haste to
eat.
9 They shall all come to the prey, their face is like a
burning wind: and they shall gather together captives as the sand.
10 And their prince shall triumph over kings, and
princes shall be his laughingstock: and he shall laugh at every strong hold,
and shall cast up a mount, and shall take it.
11 Then shall his spirit be changed, and he shall pass,
and fall: this is his strength of his god.
12 Wast thou not from the beginning, O Lord my God, my
holy one, and we shall not die? Lord, thou hast appointed him for judgment: and
made him strong for correction.
13 Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst
not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and
holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than
himself?
14 And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and
as the creeping things that have no ruler.
15 He lifted up all them with his hook, he drew them in
his drag, and gathered them into his net: for this he will be glad and rejoice.
16 Therefore will he offer victims to his drag, and he
will sacrifice to his net: because through them his portion is made fat, and
his meat dainty.
17 For this cause therefore he spreadeth his net, and
will not spare continually to slay the nations.
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