They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer concerning my complaint.

And Jehovah answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.

Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, set to Shigionoth.