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

And LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run who reads it.

Woe to him who gets 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.