Habakkuk 1:3

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Summary

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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{To the chief Musician. Upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David.} Save, Jehovah, for the godly man is gone; for the faithful have failed from among the children of men.

Swallow them up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked.

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

And I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors was power, and they had no comforter.

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a traveller's lodging-place, that I might leave my people, and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, and be not afraid of their words; for briars and thorns are with thee, and thou dwellest among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, and be not dismayed at their faces; for they are a rebellious house.

Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer-fruits, as the grape-gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat; there is no early fruit which my soul desired.

Behold, I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore prudent as the serpents, and guileless as the doves.

(for the righteous man through seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul day after day with their lawless works,)